The Inner London Probation Area Order 1992

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order combines into one probation area the petty sessions areas of the inner London area and the City of London. It revokes the Inner London Probation and After-Care Order 1976 (S.I. 1976/1526) which had combined the petty sessions areas of the inner London area (but not the City of London) in one probation area.

Article 3 combines all these petty sessions areas into a new probation area named the inner London probation area.

Article 4 provides for the new probation committee (known as the inner London and City probation committee) to consist of a total of 22 members and, of these, how many are to be chosen by each of the persons who, under Schedule 3 to the Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973, can make these appointments and for their manner of appointment.

Article 5 prescribes a three year term of office for the committee members appointed under article 4, and the manner in which casual vacancies are to be filled. Pursuant to article 6, the quorum for the new committee is to be six.

Article 7 provides that the secretary of the committee is to be the person appointed by the committee and that, where the interests of the City of London are involved, he is to consult the clerk to the justices for the City of London.

This Order comes into force forthwith for the purposes of nominating or choosing the members of the probation committee to hold office from 1st April 1992. The remaining articles come into force on that date.