SCHEDULE 1Amendments of Acts

PART 1New arrangements for the provision of probation services

Crime (Sentences) Act 1997

12.

(1)

The Crime (Sentences) Act 199746 is amended as follows.

(2)

In section 31 (duration and conditions of licences), in subsection (2A)(a)47, at the end insert “or (as the case may be) an officer of a provider of probation services acting in the local justice area within which the prisoner resides for the time being”.

(3)

In Schedule 1 (transfer of prisoners within the British Islands)—

(a)

in paragraph 8(6)48

(i)

in paragraph (c), for “local probation board” substitute “provider of probation services”;

(ii)

after paragraph (e), insert—

“(ea)

in section 103(3)(a), the reference to “an officer of a local probation board” were omitted,”; and

(iii)

after paragraph (f), insert—

“(fa)

section 103(4) were omitted,”; and

(b)

in paragraph 11(6)49, in the first column of the Table, after “such petty sessions area” insert “or officer of a provider of probation services acting in such local justice area”.