This Statutory Instrument has been made as a consequence of a defect in S.I. 2001/786 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.
Statutory Instruments
2007 No. 1335
PROBATION, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Local Probation Boards (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2007
Made
26th April 2007
Laid before Parliament
30th April 2007
Coming into force
1st June 2007
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 to Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000(1), makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Local Probation Boards (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 and shall come into force on 1st June 2007.
Amendment to the Local Probation Boards (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2001
2. For regulation 7(3) of the Local Probation Boards (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2001(2) there is substituted—
“(3) An audit committee shall have a maximum of 6 and a minimum of 4 members.
(3A) At least 4 members of the audit committee shall also be members of the local probation board.”
Gerry Sutcliffe
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Home Office
26th April 2007
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend regulation 7 of the Local Probation Boards (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2001 to correct a drafting error identified in the 14th Report of the Joint Committee for Statutory Instruments for the Parliamentary Session 2000-01. The Regulations make clear the maximum (6) and minimum (4) membership of an audit committee of a local probation board. They also make clear that at least 4 members of the audit committee must be members of local probation board.
S.I. 2001/786, relevant amendments were made by S.I. 2001/1035.