Statutory Instruments
2016 No. 962 (C. 68)
Criminal Law, England And Wales
The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Commencement No. 15, Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order 2016
Made
28th September 2016
The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 60(b), 61(2) and 61(8) of the Crime and Courts Act 2013(1).
Citation and interpretationI1
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Commencement No. 15, Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order 2016.
(2) In this Order “the Act” means the Crime and Courts Act 2013 .
Provisions coming into force on 17th October 2016I2
2.—(1) Subject to articles 3 and 4, the following provisions of the Act come into force on 17th October 2016 in relation to the local justice areas(2) specified in paragraph (2)—
(a)section 44 (dealing non-custodially with offenders), so far as relating to Part 4 of Schedule 16 to the Act, and
(b)Part 4 of Schedule 16 (electronic monitoring of offenders).
(2) The specified local justice areas are—
(a)Birmingham and Solihull;
(b)Black Country;
(c)Central and South West Staffordshire;
(d)Coventry and Warwickshire;
(e)Leicestershire and Rutland;
(f)North Staffordshire;
(g)Nottinghamshire, and
(h)South East Staffordshire.
Period for which the provisions of the Act remain in forceI3
3. Subject to article 4, the provisions of the Act brought into force by article 2 cease to be in force at the end of [F130th June 2018F1] .
Transitional and savings provisionsI4
4.—(1) The provisions of the Act brought into force by article 2 do not apply in relation to electronic monitoring requirements imposed by a court in accordance with section 215 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003(3) in the areas specified in article 2(2) before 17th October 2016.
(2) Article 3 does not affect the continued application after [F230th June 2018F2] of an electronic monitoring requirement imposed by a court in the areas specified in article 2(2) on or after 17th October 2016 and before or on [F230th June 2018F2] and the provisions brought into force by article 2 shall continue to have effect after [F230th June 2018F2] in relation to any such requirements imposed during that period.
Sam Gyimah
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Ministry of Justice
28th September 2016
2013 c. 22. There are amendments to section 61, but none are relevant to this Order.
Local justice areas were established by S.I. 2005/554, which was amended by S.I. 2011/1168, 2013/1777 and 2013/1878; there are other amending instruments but none are relevant.
2013 c. 44; section 215 was amended by section 76(6) of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10) solely for the purposes of a pilot in relation to the local justice areas specified in S.I. 2016/286 with respect to alcohol abstinence monitoring requirements.