Administration of Justice Act 1964

22 The probation service

(1) Paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 5 to the Criminal Justice Act 1948 (special provisions as to the probation system in the metropolitan police court area) shall cease to have effect; and subject to the following provisions of this section that Schedule shall apply in the inner London area as it applies outside Greater London.

(2) The Secretary of State shall make provision by order under paragraph 1 of the said Schedule 5 for combining in one probation area all of the petty sessional divisions of the inner London area; and the probation committee for that area shall consist of the following members:—

(a) such number of the judges of the Central Criminal Court, appointed in such manner, as may be prescribed by the order;

(b) such number as may be so prescribed of persons holding office as whole-time chairman or deputy chairman of the court of quarter sessions for the inner London area, nominated by the chairman of the court;

(c) such number as may be so prescribed of metropolitan stipendiary magistrates, nominated by the chief metropolitan stipendiary magistrate;

(d) such number as may be so prescribed of lay justices for the petty sessional divisions of the area, chosen, in such manner as may be so prescribed, by the lay justices for those divisions ;

(e) such number as may be so prescribed of the members of the juvenile courts panel for the inner London area and the City, chosen in such manner as may be so prescribed.

(3) The provisions of the said Schedule with respect to the constitution, procedure and functions of case committees shall not apply to the inner London area except so far as applied by the following provisions of this subsection; but—

(a) the probation committee may appoint such case committees, constituted in such manner and for such areas within the probation area, as the probation committee may determine, and shall pay the expenses of any case committee appointed under this subsection; and

(b) any case committee so appointed shall exercise functions conferred on case committees for areas elsewhere than the inner London area by paragraph 3(6) of the said Schedule to such extent and in such cases as may be determined by the probation committee.

(4) In the case of any probation committee for the inner London area, there shall be paid out of the metropolitan police fund such sums as the Secretary of State may direct to meet the expenses and contributions which, in the case of a probation area outside Greater London, would be payable by the local authority; and paragraph 5 of the said Schedule shall not apply to such expenses and contributions.

(5) Any expenditure incurred in relation to a probation area in any outer London area by the Greater London Council by virtue of the said paragraph 5 shall be chargeable only on the outer London boroughs.