§ Lords Amendment No. 22: In page 19, line 49, column 3, at end insert "and (3)."
§ The Attorney-GeneralI beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment.
1334 This again is, I trust, an uncontroversial Amendment. It is consequential on the repeal of Section 45(2)(c) of the Criminal Justice Act, 1948, which is to be repealed with the enactment of Clause 1(8), which abolishes arrangements for appointing stipendiary magistrates under local Acts of Parliament.
Section 45(2)(c) of the 1948 Act provides that, for the purposes of the Act relating to probation, an area which is not a petty sessional division may be described as such by the Secretary of State. The provisions relate only to the area of the jurisdiction of the local Act stipendiary magistrate. Subsection (3) merely empowers the Secretary of State to adjust the arrangements for probation so as to accommodate the special circumstances of a local stipendiary's area. The subsection should also therefore be repealed.
§ Question put and agreed to.
§ Remaining Lords Amendment agreed to.