HL Deb 22 December 1982 vol 437 cc1157-8WA
Baroness Trumpington

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether a date has been set for the implementation of any of the provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 1982.

Lord Elton

It is the Government's intention to bring the following provisions of the Act into force on 31st January 1983:

Sections 26–28 (sanctions against parents and guardians);

Section 30 (partly suspended sentences);

Section 31 (activation of suspended sentence);

Section 34 (computation of sentences);

Section 52 (reciprocal execution of warrants of commencement for non-payment of sum adjudged to be paid by conviction);

Section 63 (deferment of sentence);

Section 64 and Schedule 10 (persons recommended for deportation);

Section 65 and Schedule 11 (probation and aftercare);

Section 66 (center of appeal against probation, discharges and associated ancillary orders);

Section 67 (compensation orders);

Section 70 (abolition of imprisonment for vagrancy offences);

Section 71 (abolition of imprisonment for loitering and soliciting for purposes of prostitution);

Section 73 (recall of witnesses); together with other related and minor provisions in Schedules 14 and 15 (minor and consequential amendments), 16 (repeals) and 17 (transitional provisions).

As my honourable and learned friend indicated in reply to a Question in another place on 15 th December (H.C. col. 140), it is our intention to bring the remaining provisions of the Act into force in the second quarter of 1983.