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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT 1969 (c. 54) 1.—(1) Section 12 (power to include requirements in supervision orders) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (2) (directions which order may empower supervisor to give), omit paragraph (a) (directions to live for a single period at a place specified by the supervisor) and for “paragraph (a) or (b) or paragraph (a) and (b)” substitute “paragraph (b)”.

(3) In subsection (3) (restrictions as to periods specified in supervisor’s directions)—
 * (a) for paragraph (a) substitute—
 * “(a) the aggregate of the periods specified in directions given by virtue of that subsection shall not exceed ninety days or such shorter period, if any, as the order may specify for the purposes of this paragraph;”;
 * (b) omit paragraphs (b), (c) and (d) and, in paragraph (e), the words from “and if” onwards.

2. In section 13(3) (selection of supervisor for person placed under supervision of probation officer), omit the words from “or if” to “place” (which provide for the selected officer to be changed at the instance of the case committee).

3. In section 15(1) (variation and discharge of supervision order where supervised person is under the age of eighteen) for the words “from twelve months” to “with that date” substitute three months beginning with the date when the order was originally made”, and omit “in either case”.

4. In section 16(10) (meaning of "attendance centre order" etc. for purposes of section 15(4)(a))—
 * (a) after “In”, where it first occurs, insert “paragraph (b) of subsection (2A) and”;
 * (b) for “that paragraph” substitute “each of those paragraphs”;
 * (c) for “section 15(4)” substitute “section 15(2A) or (4)”.

5. In paragraph 6 of Schedule 4 (restriction on power to make attendance centre order), at the end add “other than one consisting in failure to pay, or want of sufficient distress to satisfy, a sum adjudged to be paid by a conviction”.

6. Paragraphs 1 and 3 above, and any related repeal provided for in Schedule 13 to this Act, shall not apply in relation to supervision orders made before the coming into force of those paragraphs. ROAD TRAFFIC ACT 1972 (c. 20) 1. In section 179 (restrictions on prosecutions for certain offences), in subsection (1) (offences to which section applies), after paragraph (a) insert—
 * “(aa) any offence under subsection (4) of section 13 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967 (traffic regulation on special