SCHEDULE 3 The Probation and After-Care Service and its Functions
Part I The Probation and After-Care Service
Co-option of members of probation and after-care committees and F1probation liaison comittee
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(1)
Subject to the provisions of this paragraph, any probation and after-care committee, and any F2probation liaison committee which is not a probation and after-care committee, may co-opt such number of persons as they think fit.
(2)
The number of members co-opted under sub-paragraph (1) above shall not exceed one-third of the number of members of the committee, and no person shall be so co-opted if he is a justice of the peace for any county in which the probation and after-care area or any part of it is situated, or which is wholly or partly comprised in that area.
(3)
The reference in sub-paragraph (2) above to a county includes a reference to any London commission area within the meaning of the M1Administration of Justice Act 1964 and to the City of London; but nothing in this paragraph applies to any F2probation liaison committee for an area within the inner London area.
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Any probation committee may also co-opt one or more justices with experience of sitting as members of the Crown Court, and one or more stipendiary magistrates appointed in a commission area which is the same as or is situated within the probation area.
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(1)
The Secretary of State may by order provide that the probation committee for any probation areas shall co-opt members of the local authority, or any of the local authorities, liable under paragraph 15 below to defray the expenses of the committee.
(2)
An order under this paragraph may make such consequential, supplementary or transitional provision as appears to the Secretary of State to be necessary or expedient in consequence of the order, including provision for such repeals in or modifications of this Schedule as appear to him to be necessary or expedient in consequence of it.
(3)
Without prejudice to the generality of sub-paragraph (2) above, an order under this paragraph—
(a)
may specify, either as a number or as a proportion of the members of the committee, how many persons may be co-opted to a committee and, where two or more authorites are liable to pay the expenses of a committee, how many persons may be co-opted from each of them;
(b)
may provide for the procedure for co-opting persons to be followed by a committee;
(c)
may require that such consultations as may be specified in the order shall be carried out before persons are so co-opted; and
(d)
may disqualify persons of specified descriptions from being co-opted.
(4)
An order under this paragraph may make different provision for different committees.