The Youth Rehabilitation Order (Electronic Monitoring Requirement) Order 2009

Statutory Instruments

2009 No. 2950

Criminal Law, England And Wales

The Youth Rehabilitation Order (Electronic Monitoring Requirement) Order 2009

Made

3rd November 2009

Coming into force

30th November 2009

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the power conferred by paragraph 26(5) of Schedule 1 to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008(1), makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Youth Rehabilitation Order (Electronic Monitoring Requirement) Order 2009 and shall come into force on 30 November 2009.

(2) In this Order “the 2008 Act” means the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008.

Persons responsible for monitoring

2.  The description of person responsible for the monitoring under a youth rehabilitation order with an electronic monitoring requirement, for the purposes of paragraph 26(5) of Schedule 1 to the 2008 Act (electronic monitoring requirement)—

(a) where an offender to whom the requirement applies resides in a police area(2) specified in Schedule 1, is a person employed to monitor offenders by Serco Group plc, Serco House, 16 Bartley Wood Business Park, Bartley Way, Hook, Hampshire RG27 9UY; and

(b) where an offender to whom the requirement applies resides in a police area specified in Schedule 2, is a person employed to monitor offenders by G4S Care and Justice Services (UK) Limited, Sutton Park House, 15 Carshalton Road, Sutton, Surrey SM1 4LD.

Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State

Maria Eagle

Minister of State

Ministry of Justice

3rd November 2009

Article 2(a)

SCHEDULE 1 Police areas in which a person employed to monitor offenders shall be an employee of Serco Group plc

• Bedfordshire

• Cambridgeshire

• City of London police area

• Dyfed Powys

• Essex

• Gwent

• Hertfordshire

• Metropolitan police district

• Norfolk

• North Wales

• South Wales

• Staffordshire

• Suffolk

• Warwickshire

• West Mercia

• West Midlands

Article 2(b)

SCHEDULE 2 Police areas in which a person employed to monitor offenders shall be an employee of G4S Care and Justice Services (UK) Limited

• Avon and Somerset

• Cheshire

• Cleveland

• Cumbria

• Derbyshire

• Devon and Cornwall

• Dorset

• Durham

• Gloucestershire

• Greater Manchester

• Hampshire

• Humberside

• Kent

• Lancashire

• Leicestershire

• Lincolnshire

• Merseyside

• Northamptonshire

• Northumbria

• North Yorkshire

• Nottinghamshire

• South Yorkshire

• Surrey

• Sussex

• Thames Valley

• West Yorkshire

• Wiltshire

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order identifies the description of the person who is to be responsible for monitoring an offender when a court makes a youth rehabilitation order imposing an electronic monitoring requirement.

(1)

2008 c.4.

(2)

The term “police area” has the meaning ascribed to it by 101(1) of the Police Act 1996 (c.16) by virtue of Schedule 1 to the Interpretation Act 1978(c.30). The police areas are listed in section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Police Act 1996.