SCHEDULE 2Amendments of subordinate legislation: new arrangements for the provision of probation services

Race Relations Act 1976 (Statutory Duties) Order 20014

1

The Race Relations Act 1976 (Statutory Duties) Order 2001150 is amended as follows.

2

In Schedule 1 (bodies and other persons required to publish race equality schemes) insert, at the appropriate places—

  • A probation trust.

  • A provider of probation services (other than the Secretary of State or a probation trust), in respect of its statutory functions and the carrying out by it of activities of a public nature in pursuance of arrangements made with it under section 3(2) of the Offender Management Act 2007.

3

In its application to a probation trust, that Order shall have effect as if—

a

in articles 2(1) and 5(1)(a), for “before 31st May 2002” there were substituted “within a period of one year from the date of the establishment of a probation trust under section 5(1) of the Offender Management Act 2007”; and

b

in article 2(3), for “three years from 31st May 2002” there were substituted “three years from the date of publication of its Race Equality Scheme”.

4

In its application to a provider of probation services (other than the Secretary of State or a probation trust) that Order shall have effect, in relation to the performance of its statutory functions and the carrying out by it of activities of a public nature in pursuance of arrangements made with it under section 3(2) of the Offender Management Act 2007, as if—

a

in articles 2(1) and 5(1)(a), for “before 31st May 2002” there were substituted “within a period of one year from the date on which it first entered into arrangements under section 3(2) of the Offender Management Act 2007”; and

b

in article 2(3), for “a period of three years from 31st May 2002” there were substituted “a period of three years from the date of publication of its Race Equality Scheme”.