Local Probation Boards (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2001

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 2001/786
Year2001

2001 No. 786

PROBATION

The Local Probation Boards (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2001

Made 2nd March 2001

Laid before Parliament 8th March 2001

Coming into force 1st April 2001

In exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 1(3), and 5(5) and (6) of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 20001and paragraphs 6, 7, 10 and 18 of Schedule 1 to that Act, the Secretary of State hereby makes the following Regulations:

S-1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Local Probation Boards (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 1st April 2001.

(2) In these Regulations, “the 2000 Act” means the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000.

S-2 Purposes of the National Probation Service for England and Wales

Purposes of the National Probation Service for England and Wales

2. The purposes of the National Probation Service for England and Wales mentioned in section 1(1) of the 2000 Act are hereby extended under section 1(3) of that Act to include the giving of information relating to the judicial and custodial process to:

(a) the victim of a person convicted of an offence; and

(b) a person claiming to be the victim of a person charged with an offence.

S-3 Fares incurred in reporting

Fares incurred in reporting

3. A local probation board may, in a case of hardship, pay the cost of fares necessarily incurred by a person under the supervision of an officer of the board in reporting to the officer or presenting himself elsewhere in accordance with instructions given by the officer.

S-4 Financial assistance

Financial assistance

4. Where a person is subject to the supervision of a local probation board, the board may grant that person any financial assistance which it considers necessary and which is not available from any other source.

S-5 Delegation to chief officers

Delegation to chief officers

5.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the power of a local probation board to appoint and dismiss staff below the level of assistant chief officer and to conduct disciplinary and grievance hearings in relation to such staff is hereby prescribed under paragraph 10 of Schedule 1 to the 2000 Act for the purpose of being exercised by the chief officer on behalf of the board.

(2) Paragraph (1) shall not prevent the board from arranging for the carrying out of the said power by a person other than the chief officer where the chief officer is for any reason unavailable to do so.

(3) Nothing in this regulation shall prevent a local probation board from hearing an appeal from a person employed or formerly employed by the board in relation to any disciplinary or grievance matter concerning that person.

S-6 Complaints

Complaints

6.—(1) A local probation board shall make and publicise arrangements for dealing with complaints.

(2) The following persons are prescribed under paragraph 18 of Schedule 1 to the 2000 Act for the purpose of complaints being made by or on behalf of such persons in relation to things done under arrangements made by the board under section 5 of that Act:

(a)

(a) persons in respect of whom the local probation board has had responsibility for writing a pre-sentence report;

(b)

(b) persons convicted of offences who are, or have been, under the supervision of a local...

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