Statutory Instruments
PROBATION
Made
10th December 1993
Coming into force
1st January 1994
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(1), 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 (Kent) Order 1993 and shall come into force on 1st January 1994.
2. That part of Schedule 2 to the Combined Probation Areas Order 1986(2) which relates to the Kent Probation Area(3) shall be amended by-
(a)omitting the entries in respect of the petty sessions areas of Margate and Ramsgate;
(b)inserting in alphabetical order in column 1 "Thanet", and corresponding to this in column 3 "1".
3. The two members of the Kent Probation Committee appointed before 1st January 1994 by the justices for the petty sessions areas of Margate and Ramsgate shall decide by agreement, or in default of agreement by lot, which one of them shall continue in office as if appointed by the justices for the new petty sessions area of Thanet(4).
Michael Howard
One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State
Home Office
10th December 1993
(This note is not part of the Order)
The Order amends the Combined Probation Areas Order 1986 to take account of the amalgamation of the petty sessions areas of Margate and Ramsgate into the new petty sessions area of Thanet effected by the Petty Sessional Divisions (Kent) Order 1993 (S. I.1993/2148) which comes into force on 1st January 1994.