Statutory Instruments

1994 No. 471

PROBATION

The Combined Probation Areas (Greater Manchester) Order 1994

Made

27th February 1994

Coming into force

1st April 1994

In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section 2 of the Probation Service Act 1993(1), and after the consultation required by that section, I hereby make the following Order:

1. This Order may be cited as the Combined Probation Areas (Greater Manchester) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 1st April 1994.

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

(a)omitting the entries in respect of the petty sessions areas of Ashton–under–Lyne and South Tameside;

(b)inserting in alphabetical order in column 1 “Tameside”, and corresponding to this in column 3 “2”.

3. The four members of the Greater Manchester Probation Committee appointed before 1st April 1994 by the justices for the petty sessions areas of Ashton–under–Lyne and South Tameside shall decide by agreement, or in default of agreement by lot, which two of them shall continue in office as if appointed by the justices for the new petty sesssions area of Tameside(4).

Michael Howard

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

Home Office

27th February 1994

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 Ashton–under–Lyne and South Tameside into the new petty sessions area of Tameside effected by the Petty Sessional Divisions (Tameside) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/2353) which comes into force on 1st April 1994.

(1)

1993 c. 47.

(2)

S.I. 1986/1713, amended by S.I. 1992/2121 (which is amended by S.I. 1993/92) and 1993/716.

(3)

The part relating to Greater Manchester was amended by S.I. 1991/69 and 1993/2853.

(4)

The petty sessions area of Tameside was constituted by the Petty Sessional Divisions (Tameside) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/2353).