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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offender-management-act-2007-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-provision-order-2008/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/504",
  "legislation_title": "The Offender Management Act 2007 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provision) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offender-management-act-2007-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-provision-order-2008",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Provisions coming into force in the specified areas on 1st April 2008 and transitional provision",
  "text": "(1) The day specified for the coming into force of the following provisions of the Act in relation to the areas specified in paragraph (2) is 1st April 2008—\n(a) section 1 (meaning of “probation purposes”);\n(b) section 2 (responsibility for ensuring the provision of probation services);\n(c) section 3(1) to (5), and (7) (power to make arrangements for the provision of probation services);\n(d) section 4 (restriction on certain arrangements under section 3);\n(e) section 6 (power to make grants for probation purposes etc);\n(f) section 7(3) (national standards for the management of offenders);\n(g) section 8 (annual plans);\n(h) section 10 (national framework for qualifications of officers);\n(i) section 11(1) (abolition of local probation boards);\n(j) section 12(3) (the inspectorate);\n(k) section 15 (power to repeal section 4);\n(l) section 39 (minor and consequential amendments, transitionals, and repeals) insofar as it relates to the entries in Schedule 5 specified in sub-paragraph (m); and\n(m) Part 1 (probation services) of Schedule 5 (repeals), the entries relating to the following provisions of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000—\n(i) sections 1 to 5;\n(ii) section 8;\n(iii) section 10;\n(iv) section 18;\n(v) section 20(2);\n(vi) section 21(5);\n(vii) section 22; and\n(viii) Schedule 1.\n(2) The areas specified are the following police areas—\n(a) Humberside;\n(b) Leicestershire;\n(c) Merseyside;\n(d) West Mercia;\n(e) Dyfed Powys; and\n(f) South Wales.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The term “police areas” has the meaning ascribed to it in section 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 Schedule 1 to the Police Act 1996."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The reference to “Humberside” is to be substituted by “Humber” by section 129(a) of the Police Act 1997 (c.50), from a date to be appointed."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}