1. This Order may be cited as the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 (Commencement No. 4) Order 2001.

2. The following provisions of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 shall come into force on 1st April 2001—

(a) Chapters I and II of Part I (the new services) and sections 18, 23, 24 and 25;

(b) sections 43, 44, 45 (renaming certain community orders), 54 (breach of community orders: failure to answer summons) and 55 (regulation of community orders);

(c) sections 67, 68 (arrangements for assessing etc. risks posed by certain offenders) and 69 (duties of local probation boards in connection with victims of certain offences);

(d) section 73 (parenting orders: responsible officer);

(e) Schedules 1, 2 and 3;

(f) in Schedule 7 (minor and consequential amendments)—

(i) Part I;

(ii) paragraphs 6, 37, 38, 40 to 53, 57, 58, 61, 71, 72, 74, 75, 79 to 82, 84 to 97, 99, 100, 102, 103, 110, 111(a), 116 to 118, 120 to 126, 131 to 133, 141, 143, 150 to 153, 160, 166, 168, 169, 171, 174, 175, 195, 198, 200 and 205 to 210;

(iii) in paragraph 197, sub-paragraph (b) and the definitions of “community rehabilitation period” and “local probation board” in sub-paragraph (f);

(iv) in paragraph 199, sub-paragraph (1), sub-paragraph (2)(b) save in so far as it relates to exclusion and drug abstinence orders, sub-paragraphs (3) and (4), sub-paragraph (5) save in so far as it relates to exclusion and drug abstinence orders, sub-paragraph (10) in so far as it substitutes the cross-heading preceding paragraph 7 of Schedule 3 to the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000( 2 ), sub-paragraphs (14) to (18) and (20), paragraphs (a)(iii) and (e) of sub-paragraph (21) save in so far as they relate to exclusion orders and sub-paragraphs (22), (23) and (27);

(v) paragraph 203(1); and

(vi) paragraph 203(2) in so far as it relates to paragraphs 34(a), 153, 154, 155 and 156 of Schedule 9 to the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000;

(g) the entries in Schedule 8 (repeals) relating to the enactments referred to in the left hand column of the following table in so far as they deal with the provisions referred to in the right hand column.

3. —(1) For the year ending 31st March 2001 the amendments to the Audit Commission Act 1998( 3 ) brought into force by article 2(e) above shall have effect to require each local probation board to arrange to make up and approve the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Audit Commission Act 1998 and the Accounts and Audit Regulations 1996( 4 ) (which have effect as if made under that Act) of any probation committee whose probation area forms, immediately before the creation of that local board, all or part of its area.

(2) In this article, “probation committee” means a probation committee constituted under section 3 of the Probation Service Act 1993( 5 ) as it has effect immediately before 1st April 2001.

4. In consequence of article 2(f)(iv) above (which brings into force provisions which alter the terminology in Schedule 3 to the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000), and until paragraph 199(10) of Schedule 7 to the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 comes into force for all purposes, paragraph 7(4) of Schedule 3 to the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 shall have effect as if the reference to “community service orders” were a reference to “community punishment orders” and as if the reference to “any other community service order” were a reference to “any other community punishment order”.