Statutory Instruments
2016 No. 327
Criminal Law, England And Wales
The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Alcohol Abstinence and Monitoring Requirement) (Prescription of Arrangement for Monitoring) Order 2016
Made
7th March 2016
Laid before Parliament
11th March 2016
Coming into force
1st April 2016
The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 212A(6) and (7) and 330(3)(b) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003( 1 ).
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Alcohol Abstinence and Monitoring Requirement) (Prescription of Arrangement for Monitoring) Order 2016 and comes into force on 1st April 2016.
Prescription for the purpose of section 212A(6) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003
2. —(1) This article applies for the purposes of section 212A of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 in so far as it is in force by virtue of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Alcohol Abstinence and Monitoring Requirements) Piloting Order 2016( 2 ).
(2) The arrangement for monitoring prescribed by the Secretary of State for the purpose of section 212A(6) of that Act is monitoring by a transdermal electronic tag.
Dominic Raab
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Ministry of Justice
7th March 2016
2003 c. 44 . Section 212A is inserted by section 76 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10) . Section 76 of the 2012 Act has been brought into force for the purposes of a pilot in relation to nine local justice areas as specified in S.I. 2016/286 .