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Statutory Instruments

1993 No. 748

PROBATION

The Combined Probation Areas (Northumbria) Order 1993

Made

14th March 1993

Coming into force in accordance with article 1

In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section 54(4) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to, the Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973(1), and after the consultation required by that paragraph, I hereby make the following Order:

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Combined Probation Areas (Northumbria) Order 1993.

(2) This Order shall come into force on 1st April 1993 save that, for the purpose of making appointments to the probation committee for the Northumbria Probation Area to take effect on that date, this Order shall come into force forthwith.

(3) For the purpose mentioned in paragraph (2) above, the Petty Sessional Divisions (South East Northumberland) Order 1992(2), which except for limited purposes comes into force on 1st April 1993, is to be treated as having come into force when this Order is made.

2.  That part of Schedule 2 to the Combined Probation Areas Order 1986(3) which relates to the Northumbria Probation Area(4) shall be amended by—

(a)omitting the entries in respect of the petty sessions areas of Blyth Valley, Morpeth Ward and Wansbeck; and

(b)inserting in alphabetical order in column 1 “South East Northumberland”(5) and corresponding to this in column 3 “2”.

Kenneth Clarke

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

Home Office

14th March 1993

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Combined Probation Areas Order 1986 to take account of the amalgamation of the petty sessions areas of Blyth Valley, Morpeth Ward and Wansbeck into the new petty sessions area of South East Northumberland effected by the Petty Sessional Divisions (South East Northumberland) Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/3196), which comes into force on 1st April 1993.

(2)

S.I. 1992/3196.

(3)

S.I. 1986/1713, amended by S.I. 1992/2121 (which is amended by S.I. 1993/92).

(4)

The part relating to Northumbria is amended by S.I. 1988/258 and S.I. 1986/2318.

(5)

The petty sessions area of South East Northumberland is constituted by the Petty Sessional Divisions (South East Northumberland) Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/3196).