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The Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 (Commencement No. 8) Order 2010

S.I. 2010/469 · Made 25 February 2010

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Criminal Law, England And Wales

Made 25th February 2010

The Secretary of State, being the relevant national authority under section 66(3)(b) of the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006f1 makes the following Order, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 66(2) of that Act.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2006 c.38.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and interpretation
  2. 2Commencement
  3. 3Commencement
  4. 4Commencement
  5. Signature
  6. Schedule Schedule
  7. Explanatory note

1Citation and interpretation

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 (Commencement No. 8) Order 2010.

(2)

In this Order, “the 2006 Act” means the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006.

2Commencement

The following provisions of the 2006 Act shall come into force, in relation to proceedings in magistrates’ courts in the relevant areas, on 1st April 2010—

(a)

section 6 (orders on conviction in criminal proceedings);

(b)

section 7 (supplementary provision about orders on conviction);

(c)

section 8 (variation or discharge of orders under s.6).

3Commencement

The following provisions of the 2006 Act shall come into force on 1st April 2010 in relation to proceedings in magistrates’ courts in the relevant areas, insofar as they are not already in force—

(a)

section 9 (interim orders);

(b)

section 10 (appeals);

(c)

section 11 (breach of drinking banning orders);

(d)

section 12 (approved courses);

(e)

section 13 (certificates of completion of approved courses); and

(f)

section 14 (interpretation of Chapter 1).

4Commencement

In articles 2 and 3, “the relevant areas” means the local justice areasf1 set out in the Schedule.

Signature

Alan Campbell

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State

Home Office

25th February 2010

Local Justice Areas in England and Wales
Cardiff
Central and South West Staffordshire
City of London
City of Salford
Corby
Coventry District
Doncaster
East Dorset
East Kent
Fylde Coast
Hackney and Tower Hamlets
Halton
Hull and Holderness
Leicester
Lincoln District
North Staffordshire
Nottingham
Reading
South Devon
South East Hampshire
Southampton
Southern Derbyshire
Sussex (Central)
Teesside
Wakefield

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force those provisions in Chapter 1 of Part 1 of the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 which provide for the imposition of drinking banning orders on conviction.

Article 2 brings the provisions into force in specified local justice areas (as set out in the Schedule to the Order). Magistrates’ courts in those local justice areas will be able on or after 1st April 2010 to impose a drinking banning order on conviction in accordance with section 6 of the 2006 Act.

Article 3 brings into force related provisions in the 2006 Act dealing with drinking banning orders, in the specified areas, insofar as they are not already in force in respect of drinking banning orders on application.

Drinking banning orders on application to the magistrates’ court and in county court proceedings (sections 3 and 4 of the 2006 Act) and the related provisions insofar as they relate to those drinking banning orders, have already been brought into force with effect from 31st August 2009, by the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 (Commencement No. 7) Order 2009 (SI 2009/1840).