SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 8 Minor and consequential amendments

Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 (c.43)

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1

In subsection (2) of section 31 of the 1997 Act (duration and conditions of licences), the words “(which shall include on his release conditions as to his supervision by a probation officer)” shall cease to have effect.

2

After that subsection there shall be inserted the following subsection—

2A

The conditions so specified shall include on the prisoner’s release conditions as to his supervision by—

a

a probation officer appointed for or assigned to the petty sessions area within which the prisoner resides for the time being;

b

where the prisoner is under the age of 22, a social worker of the social services department of the local authority within whose area the prisoner resides for the time being; or

c

where the prisoner is under the age of 18, a member of a youth offending team established by that local authority under section 39 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.

3

In subsection (6) of that section, for the words “section 24(2) above” there shall be substituted the words “ section 46(3) of the 1991 Act ”, and for the words “the words in parentheses” there shall be substituted the words “ subsection (2A) above ”.