The Combined Probation Areas (Dorset) Order 1987

Made: 3rd December 1987

Coming into force: 1st January 1988

In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section 54(4) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to, the Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973[^f00001] and after the consultation required by that paragraph, I hereby make the following Order:—

1

This Order may be cited as the Combined Probation Areas (Dorset) Order 1987 and shall come into force on 1st January 1988.

2

That Part of Schedule 2 to the Combined Probation Areas Order 1986[^f00002] which relates to the Dorset Probation Committee shall be amended by—

• (a) omitting the entries in respect of the petty sessions areas of Blandford and Sturminster; and

• (b) inserting in alphabetical order in column 1 “Blandford and Sturminster” and corresponding to this in column 3 “1”.

3

The two justices appointed to be members of the Dorset Probation Committee by the justices for the petty sessional divisions of Blandford and Shaftesbury before the reorganisation of those divisions and the petty sessional division of Sturminster into the new petty sessional divisions of Blandford and Sturminster and of Shaftesbury shall continue to hold office as members of that Committee, as if they had been appointed by the justices for the new divisions of Blandford and Sturminster and of Shaftesbury respectively, until 30th November 1989 and shall then cease to hold office but shall be eligible for re-appointment.

Signed

Douglas Hurd — One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State — 3rd December 1987

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Combined Probation Areas Order 1986 to take account of the reorganisation of the petty sessional divisions of Blandford, Shaftesbury and Sturminster into the new petty sessional divisions of Blandford and Sturminster and of Shaftesbury, effected by the Petty Sessional Divisions (Dorset) Order 1987 (S.I. 1987/1739) which comes into operation on 1st January 1988.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1973 c. 62.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1986/1713, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order.