SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 8 Minor and consequential amendments
Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 (c.43)
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1
In subsection (2) of section 31 of the 1997 Act (duration and conditions of licences), the words “(which shall include on his release conditions as to his supervision by a probation officer)” shall cease to have effect.
2
After that subsection there shall be inserted the following subsection—
2A
The conditions so specified shall include on the prisoner’s release conditions as to his supervision by—
a
a probation officer appointed for or assigned to the petty sessions area within which the prisoner resides for the time being;
b
where the prisoner is under the age of 22, a social worker of the social services department of the local authority within whose area the prisoner resides for the time being; or
c
where the prisoner is under the age of 18, a member of a youth offending team established by that local authority under section 39 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.
3
In subsection (6) of that section, for the words “section 24(2) above” there shall be substituted the words “
section 46(3) of the 1991 Act
”
, and for the words “the words in parentheses” there shall be substituted the words “
subsection (2A) above
”
.