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Statutory Instruments

1987 No. 2181

PROBATION

The Combined Probation Areas (Gloucestershire) Order 1987

Made

16th December 1987

Coming into force

1st January 1988

In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section 54(4) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to, the Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973(1) and after the consultation required by that paragraph, I hereby make the following Order:

1.   This Order may be cited as the Combined Probation Areas (Gloucestershire) Order 1987 and shall come into force on 1st January 1988.

2.  That Part of Schedule 2 to the Combined Probation Areas Order 1986(2) which relates to the Gloucestershire Probation Committee shall be amended by omitting the entries in respect of the petty sessions areas of Coleford, Lydney and Newnham and by inserting in alphabetical order in column 1 “Forest of Dean” and corresponding to this in column 3 “3”.

3.  The three justices appointed to be members of the Gloucestershire Probation Committee by the justices for the petty sessional divisions of Coleford, Lydney and Newnham before those divisions were combined to form a new division known as the Forest of Dean division shall continue to hold office as members of that Committee, as if they had been appointed by the justices for that new division, until 30th November 1989 and shall then cease to hold office but shall be eligible for re-appointment.

Douglas Hurd

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State Home Office

16th December 1987

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Combined Probation Areas Order 1986 to take account of the combination of the petty sessional divisions of Coleford, Lydney and Newnham in the new petty sessional division of Forest of Dean, effected by the Petty Sessional Divisions (Gloucestershire) Order 1987 (S.I. 1987/1912) which comes into force on 1st January 1988.

(2)

S.I. 1986/1713, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order.