Criminal Justice Act 1967

Administration of probation and after-care services

95Probation and after-care areas and committees.

(1)The designations " probation area " and " probation committee " are hereby changed to " probation and after-care area " and " probation and after-care committee " respectively and the new designations shall be substituted for the former designations in every enactment relating to any such area or committee.

(2)Subject to the next following subsection, each probation and after-care committee constituted under paragraph 2 of Schedule 5 to the [1948 c. 58.] Criminal Justice Act 1948 and each case committee so constituted, which is not such a committee as aforesaid, shall co-opt a suitable number of persons (not being justices of the peace) having knowledge or experience of the after-care of discharged offenders, and if it appears to the Secretary of State that any such committee has failed to carry out the foregoing requirement, he may appoint to the committee such number of such persons as aforesaid as he thinks fit.

(3)Without prejudice to the proviso to sub-paragraph (3) of the said paragraph 2 (limit on the number of co-opted members of any such committee), the number of persons who may be co-opted or appointed to any such committee under that sub-paragraph and the last foregoing subsection shall not exceed one-third of the number of members of the committee.

(4)In sub-paragraph (1)(a) of the said paragraph 2 (qualification of justices holding any of the offices of chairman, deputy chairman, assistant chairman or recorder of quarter sessions for the area for appointment to a probation and after-care committee for an area comprising more than the petty sessions area) for the words from " additional " to " appointed " there shall be substituted the words " number of additional justices who are members of a court of quarter sessions having jurisdiction in the area as may be specified ".

(5)Where a probation and after-care area is a borough having a separate court of quarter sessions, the recorder of the borough shall by virtue of his office be a member of the probation and after-care committee for that area.

96Financial provisions.

(1)For section 77(3)(e) of the Criminal Justice Act 1948 (Exchequer grants towards the expenditure of any society engaged in supervising or assisting persons released from a prison, borstal institution or detention centre) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—

“(e)towards the expenditure of any society or individual engaged in supervising or assisting persons convicted of offences with a view to their rehabilitation”.

(2)In paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 5 to the Criminal Justice Act 1948, the proviso (which enables the Secretary of State to relieve the local authority of their liability under that sub-paragraph to defray the expenses of an inefficient probation committee) shall cease to have effect.