The Combined Probation Areas (Suffolk) Order 1998

Statutory Instruments

1998 No. 3267

PROBATION

The Combined Probation Areas (Suffolk) Order 1998

Made

22nd December 1998

Coming into force

1st January 1999

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 2 of the Probation Service Act 1993(1), and after the consultation required by that section, hereby makes the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Combined Probation Areas (Suffolk) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 1st January 1999.

2.  For that part of the Combined Probation Areas Order 1986(2) which relates to the Suffolk Probation Area(3) there shall be substituted the following:

(1)	(2)	(3)
Petty Sessions Area	Probation Area	Number of justices on probation committee
Deben	Suffolk	1
Haverhill and Sudbury		2
Ipswich		2
North East Suffolk		2
North West Suffolk		1
St Edmundsbury and Stowmarket		2

3.  The two members of the Suffolk Probation Committee appointed before 1st January 1999 by the justices for the petty sessions areas of Haverhill and Sudbury shall continue in office as if appointed by the justices for the new petty sessions area of Haverhill and Sudbury(4).

4.  The two members of the Suffolk Probation Committee appointed before 1st January 1999 by the justices for the petty sessions areas of St Edmundsbury and Stowmarket shall continue in office as if appointed by the justices for the new petty sessions area of St Edmundsbury and Stowmarket(4).

Paul Boateng

Minister of State

Home Office

22nd December 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Combined Probation Areas Order 1986 (S.I. 1986/1713) to take account of the amalgamation of petty sessions areas in Suffolk. Haverhill and Sudbury are amalgamated into the new petty sessions area of Haverhill and Sudbury. St Edmundsbury and Stowmarket are amalgamated into the new petty sessions area of St Edmundsbury and Stowmarket. The amalgamations are effected by the Petty Sessional Divisions (Suffolk) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2225), the relevant provisions of which come into force on 1st January 1999.

(1)

1993 c. 47.

(2)

S.I. 1986/1713, amended by S.I. 1992/2121 (which was amended by S.I. 1993/92) and 1993/716.

(3)

The part relating to Suffolk was amended by S.I. 1988/612, 1993/3139, 1994/3315 and 1996/930.

(4)

The new petty sessions areas of Haverhill and Sudbury and of St Edmundsbury and Stowmarket were consituted by the Petty Sessional Divisions (Suffolk) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2225).