(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order brings into force those provisions in Chapter 1 of Part 1 of the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 which provide for the imposition of drinking banning orders on conviction.
Article 2 brings the provisions into force in specified local justice areas (as set out in the Schedule to the Order). Magistrates’ courts in those local justice areas will be able on or after 1st April 2010 to impose a drinking banning order on conviction in accordance with section 6 of the 2006 Act.
Article 3 brings into force related provisions in the 2006 Act dealing with drinking banning orders, in the specified areas, insofar as they are not already in force in respect of drinking banning orders on application.
Drinking banning orders on application to the magistrates’ court and in county court proceedings (sections 3 and 4 of the 2006 Act) and the related provisions insofar as they relate to those drinking banning orders, have already been brought into force with effect from 31st August 2009, by the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 (Commencement No. 7) Order 2009 (SI 2009/1840).