The Combined Probation Areas (Essex) Order 1992

Made: 18th March 1992

Coming into force: 1st April 1992

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 (Essex) Order 1992 and shall come into force on 1st April 1992.

2

That part of Schedule 2 to the Combined Probation Areas Order 1986[^f00002] which relates to the Essex Probation Committee[^f00003] shall be amended by—

• (a) omitting the entries in respect of the petty sessions areas of Freshwell and South Hinckford and Halstead and Hedingham; and

• (b) inserting in alphabetical order in column 1 “Braintree and Halstead” and corresponding to this in column 3 “2”.

3

The members of the Essex Probation Committee appointed before 1st April 1992 by the justices for the petty sessions areas of Freshwell and South Hinckford and Halstead and Hedingham shall continue in office as if they had been appointed by the justices for the new petty sessions area of Braintree and Halstead[^f00004].

Signed

Kenneth Baker — One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State — 18th March 1992

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Combined Probation Areas Order 1986 to take account of the amalgamation of the petty sessions areas of Freshwell and South Hinckford and Halstead and Hedingham into the new petty sessions area of Braintree and Halstead effected by the Petty Sessional Divisions (Essex) Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/839) which comes into force on1st April 1992.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1973 c. 62.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1986/1713.

[^f00003]: The part relating to Essex was amended by S.I. 1991/57 and S.I. 1991/156.

[^f00004]: The petty sessions area of Braintree and Halstead was constituted by the Petty Sessional Divisions (Essex) Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/839).