Statutory Instruments
2017 No. 537 (L. 7)
Criminal Law, England And Wales
The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Alcohol Abstinence and Monitoring Requirement) (Prescription of Arrangement for Monitoring) Order 2017
Made
5th April 2017
Laid before Parliament
6th April 2017
Coming into force
1st May 2017
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 2017 and comes into force on 1st May 2017.
Arrangement for monitoring
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 2017( 2 ).
(2) The arrangement for monitoring which is prescribed by the Secretary of State for the purpose of section 212A(6) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 is monitoring by a transdermal electronic tag.
Elizabeth Truss
Secretary of State
Ministry of Justice
5th April 2017
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 three local justice areas as specified in S.I. 2017/525 .