This Order brings into force the provisions of section 17 of the Police and Justice Act 2006 (c. 48) set out in article 2. The effect of the Order is that a financial penalty condition may be attached to a conditional caution in relation to every police area in England and Wales. Previously the provisions of section 17 set out in article 2 were only in force in relation to the police areas of Cambridgeshire, Hampshire, Humberside, Merseyside and Norfolk. A police area is an area listed in Schedule 1 to the Police Act 1996 (c. 16), the metropolitan police district or the City of London police area.