Provisions coming into force on 1st April 2010
2. The following provisions of the Offender Management Act 2007, to the extent that they are not already in force, come into force on 1st April 2010—
(1) section 1 (meaning of “the probation purposes”)(1);
(2) section 2 (responsibility for ensuring the provision of probation services);
(3) section 3 (power to make arrangements for the provision of probation services);
(4) section 4 (restriction on certain arrangements under section 3);
(5) section 6 (power to make grants for probation purposes etc);
(6) section 7 (national standards for the management of offenders);
(7) section 8 (annual plans);
(8) section 10 (national framework for qualifications of officers);
(9) section 11 (abolition of local probation boards and transfers of property etc and staff);
(10) section 12 (the inspectorate);
(11) section 15 (power to repeal section 4);
(12) section 39 (minor and consequential amendments, transitionals, and repeals) insofar as it relates to the entries in Schedule 5 specified in paragraph (13); and
(13) in Part 1 (probation services) of Schedule 5 (repeals), the entries relating to the following provisions of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000—
(a)sections 1 to 5;
(b)section 8;
(c)section 10;
(d)section 18;
(e)section 20(2);
(f)section 21(5);
(g)section 22;
(h)section 78; and
(i)Schedule 1.
Section 1 was amended by paragraph 83(a) of Part 2 of Schedule 26 to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (c.4).