HC Deb 15 July 1948 vol 453 c1572

Lords Amendment: Page 11, line 19, at end, insert: (7) If a person in whose case a probation order or an order or conditional discharge has been made by a court of summary jurisdiction is convicted by another court of summary jurisdiction of any offence committed during the probation period, or during the period of conditional discharge, that court may, with the consent of the court which made the order or, in the case of a probation order with the consent of that court, or of the supervising court, deal with him for the offence for which the order was made, in any manner in which the court could deal with him if it had just convicted him of that offence.

Mr. Ede

I beg to move, "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment."

This Amendment was sponsored in another place by the National Association of Probation Officers. It is the intention here to avoid, where a court of summary jurisdiction sentences a probationer on a new offence, the necessity of bringing the offender up before the original court. The court may with the consent of the court or the supervising court which made the order, deal with the offence for which the order was made. This Amendment was accepted on behalf of the Government in another place.