The Curfew Order (Responsible Officer) Order 1997

Statutory Instruments

1997 No. 2351

CRIMINAL LAW, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Curfew Order (Responsible Officer) Order 1997

Made

29th September 1997

Coming into force

1st October 1997

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the power conferred upon him by sections 12(4) and 30(1)(b) of the Criminal Justice Act 1991(1), hereby makes the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Curfew Order (Responsible Officer) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 1st October 1997.

2.  In this Order “place of curfew” means a place specified in a curfew order as a place at which a person is required by the order to remain for the curfew periods.

3.  Where a curfew order specifies a place in Berkshire, Greater Manchester, the London Borough of Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Enfield, Haringey, Harrow, Hillingdon or Hounslow, or West Yorkshire as a place of curfew the responsible officer shall be an employee of Securicor Custodial Services Limited of Sutton Park, 15 Carshalton Road, Sutton, Surrey SM1 4LD.

4.  Where a curfew order specifies a place in Cambridgeshire, Norfolk or Suffolk as a place of curfew the responsible officer shall be an employee of Geografix Limited, Hurricane Way, Norwich NR6 6EW.

5.  The Curfew Order (Responsible Officer) (Berkshire, Greater Manchester and Norfolk) Order 1995(2) is hereby revoked.

Alun Michael

Minister of State

Home Office

29th September 1997

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order describes the persons who are to be made responsible, by a curfew order relating to a place of curfew in Berkshire, Cambridgeshire, Greater Manchester, the London Borough of Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Enfield, Haringey, Harrow, Hillingdon or Hounslow, Norfolk, Suffolk or West Yorkshire, for monitoring an offender’s whereabouts during the curfew periods.

The Order also revokes the Curfew Order (Responsible Officer) (Berkshire, Greater Manchester and Norfolk) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/2840).

(1)

1991 c. 53. Section 12 was amended, so far as is relevant for these purposes, by the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (c. 33), section 168(1) and Schedule 9, paragraph 41, and was brought into force by the Criminal Justice Act 1991 (Commencement No. 4) Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/3191).

(2)

S.I. 1995/2840.