{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/probation-service-act-1993-repealed/schedule-1/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/probation-service-act-1993-repealed/schedule-1/paragraph-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/47",
  "legislation_title": "Probation Service Act 1993 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/probation-service-act-1993-repealed",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may by order provide that the probation committee for any probation area shall co-opt members of the responsible authority, or any of the responsible authorities, for that area.\n(2) The order may contain such consequential, supplementary or transitional provision as appears to the Secretary of State to be necessary or expedient in consequence of the order, including provision for such repeals in or modifications of this Act as appear to him to be necessary or expedient in consequence of it.\n(3) Without prejudice to the generality of sub-paragraph (2), the order—\n(a) may specify, either as a number or as a proportion of the members of the committee, how many persons may be co-opted to a committee and, where there are two or more responsible authorities for a probation area, how many persons may be co-opted from each of them;\n(b) may provide for the procedure for co-opting persons to be followed by a committee;\n(c) may require specified consultations to be carried out before persons are co-opted; and\n(d) may disqualify persons of specified descriptions from being co-opted.\n(4) An order under this paragraph may make different provision for different committees.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/47/schedule/1/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:34:38.408521+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}