The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (Publication of Public Spaces Protection Orders) (Amendment) Regulations 2022

Statutory Instruments

2022 No. 511

Environmental Protection, England And Wales

The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (Publication of Public Spaces Protection Orders) (Amendment) Regulations 2022

Made

4th May 2022

Laid before Parliament

10th May 2022

Coming into force

28th June 2022

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 59A(12), 60A(4), 61(5) and (6) of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014(1), makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (Publication of Public Spaces Protection Orders) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 and come into force on 28th June 2022.

Amendment to the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (Publication of Public Spaces Protection Orders) Regulations 2014

2.—(1) The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (Publication of Public Spaces Protection Orders) Regulations 2014(2) are amended as follows.

(2) After regulation 2 (publication of a public spaces protection order which has been made, extended or varied) insert—

“Publication of an expedited public spaces protection order which has been made, extended, reduced or varied

2A.   In relation to an expedited public spaces protection order that a local authority has made, extended, reduced or varied, that local authority must—

(a) publish the order as made, extended, reduced or varied (as the case may be) on its website; and

(b) cause to be erected on or adjacent to the public place to which the order relates such notice (or notices) as it considers sufficient to draw the attention of any member of the public using that place to—

(i) the fact that the order has been made, extended, reduced or varied (as the case may be); and

(ii) the effect of that order being made, extended, reduced or varied (as the case may be).”.

(3) In the heading of regulation 3 (publication of a notice of discharge of a public spaces protection order), after “order” insert “or expedited order”.

(4) In regulation 3(1), after “order” insert “or an expedited public spaces protection order”.

Kit Malthouse

Minister of State

Home Office

4th May 2022

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (Publication of Public Spaces Protection Orders) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2591) (“the 2014 Regulations”). The 2014 Regulations set out the manner in which a public spaces protection order made under section 59 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (c. 12) (“the 2014 Act”), or extended, varied or discharged under the 2014 Act, is to be published. The 2014 Act was amended by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32) to provide for expedited public spaces protection orders.

These Regulations insert new regulation 2A into the 2014 Regulations and amends existing regulation 3 of the 2014 Regulations, to apply the same publishing requirements that apply to public places protection orders to expedited public spaces protection orders that are made under section 59A of the 2014 Act, or extended, reduced, varied or discharged under that Act.

An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sectors is foreseen.

(1)

2014 c. 12; sections 59A and 60A were inserted by section 82 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32); section 61 was amended by paragraph 6 of Schedule 7 to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022.

(2)

S.I. 2014/2591.