Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Offender Management Act 2007 (Dissolution of Probation Trusts) Order 2014 and comes into force on 31st October 2014.

Dissolution of probation trusts

2. The following probation trusts( 2 ) are dissolved—

(a) Avon and Somerset Probation Trust;

(b) Bedfordshire Probation Trust;

(c) Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Probation Trust;

(d) Cheshire Probation Trust;

(e) Cumbria Probation Trust;

(f) Derbyshire Probation Trust;

(g) Devon and Cornwall Probation Trust;

(h) Dorset Probation Trust;

(i) Durham Tees Valley Probation Trust;

(j) Essex Probation;

(k) Gloucestershire Probation Trust;

(l) Greater Manchester Probation Trust;

(m) Hampshire Probation Trust;

(n) Hertfordshire Probation Trust;

(o) Humberside Probation Trust;

(p) Kent Probation;

(q) Lancashire Probation Trust;

(r) Leicestershire and Rutland Probation Trust;

(s) Lincolnshire Probation Trust;

(t) London Probation Trust;

(u) Merseyside Probation Trust;

(v) Norfolk and Suffolk Probation Trust;

(w) Northamptonshire Probation Trust;

(x) Northumbria Probation Trust;

(y) Nottinghamshire Probation Trust;

(z) South Yorkshire Probation Trust;

(aa) Staffordshire and West Midlands Probation Trust;

(bb) Surrey and Sussex Probation Trust;

(cc) Thames Valley Probation;

(dd) Wales Probation Trust;

(ee) Warwickshire Probation Trust;

(ff) West Mercia Probation Trust;

(gg) West Yorkshire Probation Trust;

(hh) Wiltshire Probation Trust; and

(ii) York and North Yorkshire Probation Trust.

Final accounts

3. —(1) The Secretary of State must—

(a) prepare a statement of accounts for each of the probation trusts dissolved by article 2 other than the Wales Probation Trust for the period beginning on 1st April 2014 and ending on 31st October 2014; and

(b) send a copy of each statement of accounts prepared under sub-paragraph (a) to the Comptroller and Auditor General as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event before 1st April 2015.

(2) The Comptroller and Auditor General must—

(a) examine, certify and report on each statement received under paragraph (1)(b); and

(b) send a copy of each report and certified statement to the Secretary of State.

(3) The Secretary of State must lay before Parliament a copy of each report and certified statement received under paragraph (2)(b).

(4) The Secretary of State must—

(a) make up the accounts for the Wales Probation Trust for the period beginning on 1st April 2014 and ending on 31st October 2014; and

(b) ensure that the accounts prepared under sub-paragraph (a) are audited in accordance with Chapter 1 of the Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004( 3 ) by one or more auditors appointed by the Auditor General for Wales.