
1 
This Order may be cited as the Combined Probation Areas (Dorset) Order 1987 and shall come into force on 1st January 1988.
2 
That Part of Schedule 2 to the Combined Probation Areas Order 1986 which relates to the Dorset Probation Committee shall be amended by—
(a) omitting the entries in respect of the petty sessions areas of Blandford and Sturminster; and
(b) inserting in alphabetical order in column 1 “Blandford and Sturminster” and corresponding to this in column 3 “1”.
3 
The two justices appointed to be members of the Dorset Probation Committee by the justices for the petty sessional divisions of Blandford and Shaftesbury before the reorganisation of those divisions and the petty sessional division of Sturminster into the new petty sessional divisions of Blandford and Sturminster and of Shaftesbury shall continue to hold office as members of that Committee, as if they had been appointed by the justices for the new divisions of Blandford and Sturminster and of Shaftesbury respectively, until 30th November 1989 and shall then cease to hold office but shall be eligible for re-appointment.
Douglas Hurd
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State
Home Office
3rd December 1987