§ COMMUNITY SERVICE ORDERS
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Lords amendment:No. 221A, in page 83, line 18, after "officer" insert
or by a social worker of a local authority social services department".
§ Mr. MayhewI beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said amendment.
§ Mr. MayhewAt present a court may not make a community service order unless it considers a report by a probation officer about the offender and his circumstances, among other features, and, if it is considered necessary, hearing a probation officer. The additional words provide that the report may also be made by a local authority social worker, and the court may also hear a social worker.
§ Question put and agreed to.
§ Lords amendment No. 222 agreed to.
§ Lords amendment: No. 223, in page 86, line 39, leave out from beginning to "it" in line 48.
§ Mr. MayhewI beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said amendment.
§ Mr. MayhewThe amendments make arrangement for the transfer of community service orders from England and Wales or England or Wales to Northern Ireland.
§ Question put and agreed to.
§ Lords amendments Nos. 224 to 227 agreed to.
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Lords amendment:No. 228, in page 91, leave out lines 16 to 41 and insert—
(a) the said section 1 shall have effect as if, in subsection (2) thereof—
(i) paragraph (b)were omitted;
(ii) for paragraph (d) there were substituted the following paragraph—
(d) it appears to the court that provision can be made by the Probation Board for Northern Ireland for him to perform work under such an order;";
(b)the order shall specify that the unpaid work required to be performed by the order shall be performed under the provision made by the Probation Board for Northern Ireland and referred to in section 1(2)(d)of this Act as substituted by paragraph (a)above.
§ The Solicitor-General for ScotlandI beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said amendment.
§ The Solicitor-General for ScotlandThese are purely technical amendments.
§ Question put and agreed to.
§ Lords amendments Nos. 229 to 233 agreed to.