Legislation – Victims and Prisoners Act 2024
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Part 1Victims of criminal conduct
Victim impact statements to mental health tribunals (restricted patients)
I121Victim impact statements to mental health tribunals (restricted patients)
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Chapter 2 of Part 3 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 (victims’ rights to make representations and receive information) is amended as follows.
2
In section 37(8)(c)(i), for “that area” substitute “that local probation board”
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After section 37 insert—
37ZAVictim impact statements where restriction order made
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This section applies if, in a case where section 37 applies, an application or reference mentioned in subsection (5) of that section is made to the First-tier Tribunal or the Mental Health Review Tribunal for Wales.
2
The relevant probation body—
a
must take all reasonable steps to ascertain whether a person who appears to the body to be the victim of the offence or to act for the victim of the offence wishes to provide a victim impact statement to the body, and
b
if the person provides such a statement, must forward it to the tribunal.
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Where a victim impact statement has been forwarded to the tribunal under subsection (2), the tribunal must—
a
allow the person who made the statement to request permission to read the statement to the tribunal at a relevant hearing, and
b
grant such permission unless the tribunal considers that there are good reasons not to.
4
The tribunal may have regard to the statement when determining a matter specified in section 36(5)(a) or (b) (but must not have regard to it for any other purpose).
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In this section—
“relevant hearing” means any hearing held by the tribunal before making a decision which disposes of proceedings on the application or reference mentioned in subsection (1);
“the relevant probation body” has the meaning given in section 37(8);
“victim impact statement” means a statement about the way in which, and degree to which, the offence has affected and (as the case may be) continues to affect the victim or any other person.