Sch 11 para 3
The following paragraphs shall be inserted after paragraph 6— (6A) Any probation committee may also co-opt one or more justices with experience of sitting as members of the Crown Court, and one or more stipendiary magistrates appointed in a commission area which is the same as or is situated within the probation area. (6B) (1) The Secretary of State may by order provide that the probation committee for any probation area shall co-opt members of the local authority, or any of the local authorities, liable under paragraph 15 below to defray the expenses of the committee. (2) An order under this paragraph may make such consequential, supplementary or transitional provision as appears to the Secretary of State to be necessary or expedient in consequence of the order, including provision for such repeals in or modifications of this Schedule as appear to him to be necessary or expedient in consequence of it. (3) Without prejudice to the generality of sub-paragraph (2) above, an order under this paragraph— (a) may specify, either as a number or as a proportion of the members of the committee, how many persons may be co-opted to a committee and, where two or more authorities are liable to pay the expenses of a committee, how many persons may be co-opted from each of them; (b) may provide for the procedure for co-opting persons to be followed by a committee; (c) may require that such consultations as may be specified in the order shall be carried out before persons are so co-opted; and (d) may disqualify persons of specified descriptions from being co-opted. (4) An order under this paragraph may make different provision for different committees.