The Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (Responsible Authorities) Order 2009

This Statutory Instrument has been printed in substitution of the SI of the same number and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

2009 No. 1033

Criminal Law, England And Wales

The Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (Responsible Authorities) Order 2009

Made

20th April 2009

Laid before Parliament

24th April 2009

Coming into force

21st May 2009

This Order is made in exercise of the powers conferred by section 5(1A) of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998(1).

An application for an Order containing the provisions set out below has been made jointly by all persons who would be responsible authorities in relation to a combined area consisting of the local government areas of Gedling Borough Council, Rushcliffe Borough Council and Broxtowe Borough Council.

The Secretary of State considers it would be in the interests of reducing crime and disorder and of combatting the misuse of drugs, alcohol and other substances, to make such an Order.

Accordingly the Secretary of State makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (Responsible Authorities) Order 2009 and shall come into force on 21st May 2009.

Combined areas

2.—(1) The functions conferred by sections 6 and 7 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998(2) are to be carried out in relation to the local government areas of Gedling Borough Council, Rushcliffe Borough Council and Broxtowe Borough Council as if they constituted only one area (for the purposes of this article, “the combined area”).

(2) The persons who for the purposes of Chapter 1 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 are to be taken as the responsible authorities in relation to the combined area are the persons who comprise every person who, apart from this Order, would be a responsible authority in relation to any one or more of the areas included in the combined area.

Alan Campbell

Parliamentary Under–Secretary of State

Home Office

20th April 2009

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order has the effect that three crime and disorder partnerships in Nottinghamshire are to be combined to form the South Nottinghamshire crime and disorder partnership. The partnership will perform the functions conferred by sections 6 and 7 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, namely functions related to the formulation and implementation of strategies for the reduction of crime and disorder and the misuse of drugs, alcohol and other substances in their respective areas. The partnership will comprise the local government areas of Gedling Borough Council, Rushcliffe Borough Council and Broxtowe Borough Council.

(1)

1998 c.37: subsection (1A) was inserted in section 5 by section 97(1) and (3) of the Police Reform Act 2002 (c.30) and was amended by paragraph 2 of Schedule 9 to the Police and Justice Act 2006 (c.48).

(2)

Sections 6 and 6A were substituted by paragraph 3 of Schedule 9 to the Police and Justice Act 2006.