Part I The New Services

Chapter I National Probation Service for England and Wales

Functions

4 Local probation boards.

1

For the purpose of implementing this Chapter, England and Wales shall be divided into areas.

2

For each area there shall be a board (referred to in this Act as a local probation board) which is to exercise the functions conferred on it by virtue of this Act and any other enactment.

3

Schedule 1 (which makes provision about the constitution of local probation boards, their powers and other matters relating to them) is to have effect.

4

References in this Act or any other enactment to an officer of a local probation board are references to—

a

any member of the staff of a local probation board appointed to exercise the functions of an officer of the board, and

b

any other individual exercising functions of an officer of a local probation board by virtue of section 5(2).

5

The initial areas for the purpose of implementing this Chapter are—

a

the police areas listed in Schedule 1 to the M1Police Act 1996 (areas into which England and Wales, apart from London, is divided), and

b

the area comprising the Metropolitan Police District and the City of London Police Area.

6

The division of England and Wales into areas for that purpose may be altered from time to time by order made by the Secretary of State.