positive behaviour intervention course

From the BBC:

Courts get 'booze Asbo' powers
People in England and Wales who commit crimes or behave anti-socially while drunk could now face a Drinking Banning Order - or "booze Asbo".

Under powers coming into force on Monday, police and councils can seek an order on anyone aged 16 and over.

Magistrates can then ban them from pubs, bars, off-licences and certain areas for up to two years. Anyone who breaches the order faces a £2,500 fine.

Surely 16 year olds are already, because of the fact that they aren't legally allowed to buy alcohol for another 2 years, covered by existing legislation?

According to the TV news on the BBC these orders can be from 2 months to 2 years and can be reduced if the offender pays for and attends a Positive Behaviour Intervention Course. So at 16 you get a 2 year booze asbo, attend a PBIC, and have it reduced to only 12 months. Does that then make it legal for you be buying drinks in pubs and off licences at 17? Clearly not. I don't think this new initiative has been thought through correctly.

Our old friend Don Shenker, chief exec of fakecharity Alcohol Concern, is quoted as saying

"Policing of alcohol-related crime must go hand in hand with more robust measures to curb irresponsible and illegal sales and improved treatment pathways for dependent drinkers."

clearly unable to see that we already have plenty of legislation to combat the problem of antisocial behaviour. We should enforce the existing regulations rather than passing a raft of new, ever more authoritarian, legislation.