Statutory Instruments
1998 No. 782

PROBATION
The Combined Probation Areas (Hertfordshire) Order 1998

Made
13th March 1998

Coming into force
1st April 1998

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 2 of the Probation Service Act 1993(1), and after the consultation required by that section, hereby makes the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Combined Probation Areas (Hertfordshire) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 1st April 1998.

2.  For that part of the Combined Probation Areas Order 1986(2) which relates to the Hertfordshire Probation Area(3) there shall be substituted the following—

(1)
(2)
(3)

Petty Sessions Area
Probation Area
Number of Justices on Probation Committee

Dacorum

Watford

Hertfordshire
3

East Hertfordshire

North Hertfordshire

3

Mid Hertfordshire

St Albans

3

3.  The three members of the Hertfordshire Probation Committee appointed before 1st April 1998 by the justices for the grouped petty sessions areas of Bishop’s Stortford, Cheshunt, Hertford and Ware, and North Hertfordshire shall continue in office as if appointed by the justices for the grouped petty sessions areas of East Hertfordshire(4) and North Hertfordshire.

Joyce Quin
Minister of State
Home Office
13th March 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Combined Probation Areas Order 1986 (S.I. 1986/1713) to take account of the amalgamation of the petty sessions areas of Bishop’s Stortford, Cheshunt, and Hertford and Ware into the new petty sessions area of East Hertfordshire effected by the Petty Sessional Divisions (Hertfordshire) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/586) which comes into force on 1st April 1998.


(1)
1993 c. 47.

(2)
S.I. 1986/1713, amended by S.I. 1992/2121 (which is amended by S.I. 1993/92) and 1993/716.

(3)
The part relating to Hertfordshire was amended by S.I. 1990/844, 1993/2151, 1994/3314 and 1995/2951.

(4)
The new petty sessions area of East Hertfordshire was constituted by the Petty Sessional Divisions (Hertfordshire) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/586).