The Combined Probation Areas (Hereford and Worcester) Order 1992

Statutory Instruments

1992 No. 3323

PROBATION

The Combined Probation Areas (Hereford and Worcester) Order 1992

Made

23rd December 1992

Coming into force in accordance with article 2

In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section 54(4) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to, the Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973(1), and after the consultation required by that paragraph, I hereby make the following Order:

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Combined Probation Areas (Hereford and Worcester) Order 1992.

(2) In this Order—

“1986 Order” means the Combined Probation Areas Order 1986(2);

“abolished division” and “respective new division” have the meanings assigned to them in Part I of Schedule 3 to the Petty Sessional Divisions (Hereford and Worcester) Order 1992(3).

2.  This Order shall come into force on 1st January 1993 save that, except for the purpose of making appointments to the Hereford and Worcester Probation Committee to take effect on 1st April 1993, that part of article 3 of this Order which substitutes new numbers in column 3 of Schedule 2 to the 1986 Order shall come into force on 1st April 1993.

3.  For the entry in Schedule 2 to the 1986 Order in respect of the Hereford and Worcester Probation Area(4) there shall be substituted the following entry—

(1)	(2)	(3)
Petty Sessions Area	Probation Area	Number of justices on probation committee
Bromsgrove and Redditch	Hereford and Worcester	2
Herefordshire		2
Severnminster		2
South Worcestershire		3

4.  Until 31st March 1993, column 3 of the entry in Schedule 2 to the 1986 Order in respect of the Hereford and Worcester Probation Area shall have effect as if the number of justices specified in that column relating to the petty sessions areas of Bromsgrove and Redditch. Herefordshire, Severnminister and South Worcestershire(5) was, respectively, 4, 6, 4 and 9.

5.  The members of the Hereford and Worcester Probation Committee appointed before 1st January 1993 by the justices for each of the abolished divisions which then formed the Hereford and Worcester Probation Area shall continue in office until 31st March 1993 as if, in the case of each such appointment, appointed by the justices for the respective new division.

Kenneth Clarke

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

Home Office

23rd December 1992

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Combined Probation Areas Order 1986 to take account of the reorganisation of petty sessions areas in Hereford and Worcester effected by the Petty Sessional Divisions (Hereford and Worcester) Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/2367) which comes into force on 1st January 1993. Article 5 provides for the existing members of the Hereford and Worcester Probation Committee to remain in office until 31st March 1993. From 1st April 1993, the Order provides for a reduction in the overall number of justices appointed to the Probation Committee, from 23 to 9.

(1)

1973 c. 62.

(2)

S.I. 1986/1713, amended by S.I. 1992/2121.

(3)

S.I. 1992/2367.

(4)

The part relating to Hereford and Worcester is amended by S.I. 1987/2223.

(5)

The petty sessions areas referred to in this article were constituted by the Petty Sessional Divisions (Hereford and Worcester) Order 1992.