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(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 [1996 c. 16.] Police 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.
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