1.-(1) This Order may be cited as the Combined Probation Areas Order 1992 and shall come into force on 1st October 1992.

(2) In this Order-

• "elected member" has the meaning given in rule 2 of the Probation Rules 1984(2);

• "the 1985 Order" means the Outer London Probation Areas (No. 2) Order 1985(3);

• "the 1986 Order" means the Combined Probation Areas Order 1986(4).

2.-(1) In article 5(1) of the 1985 Order, the words, "and to the provisions of paragraphs (2) and (3) of this Article" shall be omitted and for the words, "1st January" there shall be substituted the words, "1st April".

(2) Article 5(2) and (3) of the 1985 Order shall be omitted.

(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of article 5 of the 1985 Order as in force on 30th September 1992, the term of appointment of any person appointed under article 4 of that Order to hold office from 1st January 1990 as a member of the Middlesex, North East London, South East London or South West London Probation Committee, or appointed to fill a vacancy among the elected members of such a committee where the member in whose place he was appointed was appointed to hold office from 1st January 1990, and who, on 31st December 1992, is a member of the committee, shall be deemed to have been made so as to expire on 31st March 1993.

(4) Notwithstanding the provisions of article 5 of the 1985 Order as in force on 30th September 1992, the term of appointment of any person appointed under article 4 of that Order to hold office from 1st January 1991 or 1st January 1992 as a member of a committee mentioned in paragraph (3) above, or appointed to fill a vacancy among the elected members of such a committee where the member in whose place he was appointed was appointed to hold office from 1st January 1991 or 1st January 1992, and who, on 31st March 1993, would, but for the provisions of this article, be a member of the committee, shall expire on 31st March 1993.

3.-(1) In article 5 of the 1986 Order, for the words, "1st December" there shall be substituted the words, "1st April".

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of article 5 of the 1986 Order as in force on 30th September 1992, the term of appointment of any person appointed under article 4 of that Order to hold office from 1st December 1989 as a member of a probation committee, or appointed to fill a vacancy among the elected members of such a committee where the member in whose place he was appointed was appointed to hold office from 1st December 1989, and who, on 30th November 1992, is a member of the committee shall be deemed to have been made so as to expire on 31st March 1993.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Articles 2 and 3 of this Order amend the Outer London Probation Areas (No. 2) Order 1985 and the Combined Probation Areas Order 1986 so as to change the date in the year on which an appointment under either Order to membership of a probation committee takes effect from 1st January, in the case of the 1985 Order, and 1st December, in the case of the 1986 Order, to 1st April. By virtue of articles 2(2) and (3) and 3(2) the terms of appointment of existing members of a probation committee who were appointed under either Order (or who filled vacancies in such appointments) are shortened or extended, as appropriate, to bring their expiry into line with the new appointment dates. In particular, by virtue of article 2(2) all appointments to the Outer London Probation Committees under the 1985 Order will begin, and end, on the same day and the existing staggered expiry of appointments will cease.