Schedule 4: Transitional and transitory provisions and savings
191.Paragraph 1 deals with what happens when a chief officer of a local probation board is not appointed chief executive of a probation trust. If a local probation board is abolished under the terms of the Act and the chief officer of that board is not appointed as chief executive of a probation trust before ceasing to hold office as chief officer, the Secretary of State may pay such compensation as he considers appropriate.
192.Paragraph 2 deals with what happens when a chief officer of a local probation board is appointed chief executive of a probation trust. In that case, his continuity of employment is preserved and the period he spent as a chief officer (including any previous service as a chief probation officer with a probation committee) will count as a period of employment with the trust.
193.Paragraph 6 makes clear that the Secretary of State may make an order under section 38(1) to provide transitional arrangements, in the event that the new escort arrangements in section 35 are introduced before the sentences of detention in a young offender institution and custody for life are abolished.
194.Paragraph 7 of the Schedule makes transitory provision to cover the possibility that section 59 of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 (which provide for the abolition of remand centres) does not come into force before the amendment made by paragraph 8(2) of Schedule 3.