Criminal Justice Act 1948

General.

6 The Secretary of State may make rules—

(a) regulating the constitution, procedure, powers and duties of probation committees and case committees, and the expenses which may be incurred by them and the manner in which those expenses are to be defrayed ;

(b) regulating the qualifications, manner of appointment, conditions of service and duties of probation officers ;

(c) prescribing anything else which under the foregoing provisions of this Schedule may be prescribed ;

and in those provisions the expression " prescribed " means prescribed by rules of the Secretary of State.

7 (1) The foregoing provisions of this Schedule shall in their application to the metropolitan police court area have effect subject to the following modifications, that is to say :—

(a) the metropolitan police court area shall be a probation area;

(b) the provisions with respect to the constitution of probation committees and case committees shall not apply; and the Secretary of State may by order constitute committees to ensure that the work of probation officers is efficiently carried out and to review that work and for such other purposes as he may think fit;

(c) the power to appoint probation officers and the other powers of probation committees shall be exercisable by the Secretary of State;

(d) there shall be paid out of the metropolitan police fund such sums as the Secretary of State may direct to meet the expenses and contributions which would, in the case of probation areas outside the metropolitan police court area, be payable by local authorities.

(2) Notwithstanding anything in paragraph I of this Schedule, the City of London shall not be included in a probation area constituted by an order made thereunder.