The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Alcohol Abstinence and Monitoring Requirements) Piloting Order 2016

Made: 7th March 2016

The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 77(1), (4) and (8) of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012[^f00001].

Citation and interpretation

1

• (1) This Order may be cited as the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Alcohol Abstinence and Monitoring Requirements) Piloting Order 2016.

• (2) In this Order—

• (a) “the Act” means the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012; and

• (b) “alcohol abstinence and monitoring requirement” has the same meaning as in Part 12 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003[^f00002].

Coming into force of section 76 of the Act

2

Subject to articles 3 and 4(1), section 76 of the Act (alcohol abstinence and monitoring requirement) comes into force on 1st April 2016 for all purposes other than application by the Armed Forces Act 2006[^f00003].

Areas in relation to which section 76 of the Act is in force

3

Section 76 of the Act comes into force only in relation to the following local justice areas[^f00004]—

• (a) Central London;

• (b) East London;

• (c) North East London;

• (d) North London;

• (e) North West London;

• (f) South London;

• (g) South East London;

• (h) South West London; and

• (i) West London.

Period for which section 76 of the Act is in force

4

• (1) Subject to paragraph (2), section 76 of the Act, in so far as it is brought into force by article 2, ceases to have effect at the end of 31st March 2018.

• (2) Paragraph (1) does not affect the continued application after that date of an alcohol abstinence and monitoring requirement imposed by a court during the period mentioned in that paragraph.

Signed

Dominic Raab — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Ministry of Justice — 7th March 2016

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order brings into force section 76 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10), commencing on 1st April 2016 until the end of 31st March 2017, in the nine local justice areas specified in article 3. Among other things, section 76 inserts section 212A of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44), which gives a court a power to impose an alcohol abstinence and monitoring requirement as part of a community order or suspended sentence order. Article 4(2) provides that any requirement imposed before section 76 ceases to be in force may continue to have effect after that time.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sectors is foreseen.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2012 c. 10.

[^f00002]: 2003 c. 44.Section 212A, the material provision in Part 12, was inserted by section 76 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.

[^f00003]: 2006 c. 52.

[^f00004]: England and Wales is divided into areas known as local justice areas as required by section 8 of the Courts Act 2003 (c. 39). These were established by the Local Justice Areas Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/554). The Local Justice Areas Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1168) created the new local justice areas from 1st January 2012 (see Table 1 of article 3).

Editorial notes

[^key-7fde1b26fa733f4777724620df77b260]: Art. 1 in force at made date

[^key-6cbaffcb9cfba15e13ab5c0583e9ded9]: Art. 2 in force at made date

[^key-2bab68e6eae2e7fce5b5a80728797dd7]: Art. 3 in force at made date

[^key-24075d491c0769462c225fd359332233]: Art. 4 in force at made date

[^key-b66c6ede5f0ad5c467faac3573bd60e5]: Word in art. 4(1) substituted (31.3.2017) by The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Alcohol Abstinence and Monitoring Requirements) Piloting (Amendment) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/225), arts. 1, 2