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The Local Probation Boards (Appointment and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2006

S.I. 2006/2664 · Made 4 October 2006

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probation, england and wales

Made 4th October 2006

Laid before Parliament 10th October 2006

Coming into force 1st November 2006

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraphs 2(4) and (6), 3(4) and 6 of Schedule 1 to the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000f1, makes the following Regulations:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2000 c.43.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Amendments to the Local Probation Boards (Appointment) Regulations 2000
  3. 3Amendment to the Local Probation Boards (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2001
  4. Signature
  5. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Local Probation Boards (Appointment and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 and shall come into force on 1st November 2006.

2Amendments to the Local Probation Boards (Appointment) Regulations 2000

The Local Probation Boards (Appointment) Regulations 2000f1 shall be amended as follows—

(a)

regulation 5(2) shall be omitted; and

(b)

in regulation 6 for “a term of” substitute “a term not exceeding”.

3Amendment to the Local Probation Boards (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2001

In regulation 8(2) of the Local Probation Boards (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2001f1 for “7” substitute “5”.

Signature

Gerry Sutcliffe

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Home Office

4th October 2006

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Local Probation Boards (Appointment) Regulations 2000 (“the 2000 Regulations”) and the Local Probation Boards (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (“the 2001 Regulations”).

Regulation 2(a) removes regulation 5(2) of the 2000 Regulations, which provided that where practicable four of the persons appointed to a local probation board should be justices of the peace within the area of the board and two of the persons appointed should be members of a local authority for a local government area (within the meaning of section 270 of the Local Government Act 1972f1) which falls within the area of the board.

Regulation 2(b) amends regulation 6 of the 2000 Regulations so that members of a local probation board other than the chief officer can be appointed for a term not exceeding three years.

Regulation 3 amends regulation 8(2) of the 2001 Regulations to reduce the number of members of a local probation board who must be present at a meeting for it to be quorate to 5.