STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
2011 No. 2702
criminal law, WALES
The Crime and Disorder (Formulation and Implementation of Strategy) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2011
Made - - - - 6th November 2011
Laid before Parliament 14th November 2011
Laid before the National Assembly for Wales 14th November 2011
Coming into force - - 5th December 2011
The Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers jointly make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 6(2), (3), (4) and (9)(c) of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998([a]) on the Secretary of State and the National Assembly for Wales, the powers conferred on the National Assembly for Wales now being vested in the Welsh Ministers([b]):
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Crime and Disorder (Formulation and Implementation of Strategy) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 and shall come into force on 5th December 2011.
(2) In these Regulations the “2007 Regulations” means the Crime and Disorder (Formulation and Implementation of Strategy) (Wales) Regulations 2007([c]).
Amendment of the 2007 Regulations
2. The 2007 Regulations are amended as follows.
3. For regulation 3 there is substituted—
Functions in respect of the formulation and implementation of a strategy
3.—(1) For each area there shall be a strategy group whose functions shall be to—
(a) prepare strategic assessments; and
(b) prepare and implement a partnership plan,
for that area on behalf of the responsible authorities.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3) the strategy group shall consist of two or more persons appointed by one or more of the responsible authorities in the area.
(3) Where there is more than one responsible authority of the type specified in section 5(1)(aa) of the 1998 Act in the area, those providers shall jointly appoint one or more persons to the strategy group.
(4) A meeting of a strategy group may be attended by persons who represent co-operating and participating persons and bodies and such other persons as the strategy group invites.
(5) The strategy group shall have in place arrangements governing the review of the expenditure of partnership monies and for assessing the economy, efficiency and effectiveness of such expenditure.
4. In regulation 9—
(a) the paragraph number “(1)” is omitted;
(b) in sub-paragraph (a) the words “in the three year period beginning with the year referred to in regulation 8(2)” are omitted; and
(c) in sub-paragraph (aa) the words “in the three year period beginning with the year referred to in regulation 8(2)” are omitted.
Home Office Nick Herbert
6th November 2011 Minister of State
Carl Sargeant
Minister for Local Government and Communities,
1st November 2011 one of the Welsh Ministers
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations provide in regulation 3 for the substitution of regulation 3 in the Crime and Disorder (Formulation and Implementation of Strategy) (Wales) Regulations 2007 (the “2007 Regulations”) with effect from 5th December 2011. Regulation 3 of the 2007 Regulations relates to the composition and meeting of a strategy group for each local government area, whose function is to prepare strategic assessments in accordance with regulations 5 to 7 and to prepare and implement a partnership plan in accordance with regulations 8 and 9.
Regulation 4 of these Regulations omits the requirements in respect of a three year period in regulation 9(1)(a) and (aa) of the 2007 Regulations in connection with a partnership plan including strategies for the reduction of crime and disorder and the reduction of re-offending.
([a]) 1998 c. 37; section 6 was substituted by section 22 of, and paragraph 3 of Schedule 9 to, the Police and Justice Act 2006 (c. 48) and was amended by section 108(4) and (5) of the Policing and Crime Act 2009 (c. 26).