The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (Publication of Public Spaces Protection Orders) (Amendment) Regulations 2022
Citation and commencement1.
These Regulations may be cited as the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (Publication of Public Spaces Protection Orders) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 and come into force on 28th June 2022.
Amendment to the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (Publication of Public Spaces Protection Orders) Regulations 20142.
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(2)
“Publication of an expedited public spaces protection order which has been made, extended, reduced or varied2A.
In relation to an expedited public spaces protection order that a local authority has made, extended, reduced or varied, that local authority must—
(a)
publish the order as made, extended, reduced or varied (as the case may be) on its website; and
(b)
cause to be erected on or adjacent to the public place to which the order relates such notice (or notices) as it considers sufficient to draw the attention of any member of the public using that place to—
(i)
the fact that the order has been made, extended, reduced or varied (as the case may be); and
(ii)
the effect of that order being made, extended, reduced or varied (as the case may be).”.
(3)
In the heading of regulation 3 (publication of a notice of discharge of a public spaces protection order), after “order” insert “or expedited order”
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(4)
In regulation 3(1), after “order” insert “or an expedited public spaces protection order”
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These Regulations amend the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (Publication of Public Spaces Protection Orders) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2591) (“the 2014 Regulations”). The 2014 Regulations set out the manner in which a public spaces protection order made under section 59 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (c. 12) (“the 2014 Act”), or extended, varied or discharged under the 2014 Act, is to be published. The 2014 Act was amended by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32) to provide for expedited public spaces protection orders.
These Regulations insert new regulation 2A into the 2014 Regulations and amends existing regulation 3 of the 2014 Regulations, to apply the same publishing requirements that apply to public places protection orders to expedited public spaces protection orders that are made under section 59A of the 2014 Act, or extended, reduced, varied or discharged under that Act.
An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sectors is foreseen.