The Crime and Disorder (Formulation and Implementation of Strategy) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2011

Statutory Instruments

2011 No. 2702

Criminal Law, Wales

The Crime and Disorder (Formulation and Implementation of Strategy) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2011

Made

6th November 2011

Laid before Parliament

14th November 2011

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

14th November 2011

Coming into force

5th December 2011

The Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers jointly make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 6(2), (3), (4) and (9)(c) of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998(1) on the Secretary of State and the National Assembly for Wales, the powers conferred on the National Assembly for Wales now being vested in the Welsh Ministers(2):

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Crime and Disorder (Formulation and Implementation of Strategy) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 and shall come into force on 5^th December 2011.

(2) In these Regulations the “2007 Regulations” means the Crime and Disorder (Formulation and Implementation of Strategy) (Wales) Regulations 2007(3).

Amendment of the 2007 Regulations

2.  The 2007 Regulations are amended as follows.

3.  For regulation 3 there is substituted—

“Functions in respect of the formulation and implementation of a strategy

3.— (1) For each area there shall be a strategy group whose functions shall be to—

(a) prepare strategic assessments; and

(b) prepare and implement a partnership plan,

for that area on behalf of the responsible authorities.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3) the strategy group shall consist of two or more persons appointed by one or more of the responsible authorities in the area.

(3) Where there is more than one responsible authority of the type specified in section 5(1)(aa) of the 1998 Act in the area, those providers shall jointly appoint one or more persons to the strategy group.

(4) A meeting of a strategy group may be attended by persons who represent co-operating and participating persons and bodies and such other persons as the strategy group invites.

(5) The strategy group shall have in place arrangements governing the review of the expenditure of partnership monies and for assessing the economy, efficiency and effectiveness of such expenditure.”

4.  In regulation 9—

(a) the paragraph number “(1)” is omitted;

(b) in sub-paragraph (a) the words “in the three year period beginning with the year referred to in regulation 8(2)” are omitted; and

(c) in sub-paragraph (aa) the words “in the three year period beginning with the year referred to in regulation 8(2)” are omitted.

Nick Herbert

Minister of State

Home Office

6th November 2011

Carl Sargeant

Minister for Local Government and Communities, one of the Welsh Ministers

1st November 2011

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations provide in regulation 3 for the substitution of regulation 3 in the Crime and Disorder (Formulation and Implementation of Strategy) (Wales) Regulations 2007 (the “2007 Regulations”) with effect from 5^th December 2011. Regulation 3 of the 2007 Regulations relates to the composition and meeting of a strategy group for each local government area, whose function is to prepare strategic assessments in accordance with regulations 5 to 7 and to prepare and implement a partnership plan in accordance with regulations 8 and 9.

Regulation 4 of these Regulations omits the requirements in respect of a three year period in regulation 9(1)(a) and (aa) of the 2007 Regulations in connection with a partnership plan including strategies for the reduction of crime and disorder and the reduction of re-offending.

(1)

1998 c. 37; section 6 was substituted by section 22 of, and paragraph 3 of Schedule 9 to, the Police and Justice Act 2006 (c. 48) and was amended by section 108(4) and (5) of the Policing and Crime Act 2009 (c. 26).

(2)

The functions of the National Assembly for Wales were transferred to the Welsh Ministers by virtue of paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32).

(3)

S.I. 2007/3076 as amended by S.I. 2010/648.