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Statutory Instruments

1992 No. 840

PROBATION

The Combined Probation Areas (Oxfordshire) Order 1992

Made

18th March 1992

Coming into force

1st April 1992

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 (Oxfordshire) Order 1992 and shall come into force on 1st April 1992.

2.—(1) That part of Schedule 2 to the Combined Probation Areas Order 1986(2) which relates to the Oxfordshire probation area(3)shall be amended by–

(a)omitting the entries in respect of the petty sessions areas of East Oxfordshire and Henley;

(b)inserting in alphabetical order in column 1 “Thame and Henley”, and corresponding to this in column 3 “4”.

(2) As from 1st December 1992, paragraph (1)(b) of this article shall have effect as if the reference to “4” was a reference to “3”.

3.  The four members of the Oxfordshire Probation Committee appointed before 1st April 1992 by the justices for the petty sessions areas of East Oxfordshire and Henley shall continue in office as if they had been appointed by the justices for the new petty sessions area of Thame and Henley(4).

Kenneth Baker

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

Home Office

18th March 1992

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Order amends the Combined Probation Areas Order 1986 to take account of the amalgamation of the petty sessions areas of East Oxfordshire and Henley into the new petty sessions area of Thame and Henley effected by the Petty Sessional Divisions (Oxfordshire) Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/838) which comes into force on 1st April 1992.

(2)

S.I. 1986/1713.

(3)

The part relating to Oxfordshire was amended by S.I. 1986/2317 and S.I. 1988/2233.

(4)

The petty sessions area of Thame and Henley was constituted by the Petty Sessional Divisions (Oxfordshire) Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/838).