Legislation – Victims and Prisoners Act 2024
Part 1Victims of criminal conduct
Information relating to victims
30Review of provisions relating to counselling information requests
(1)
The Secretary of State must prepare a report about the operation in the review period of Chapter 3A of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (requests for information relating to victims) (inserted by section 28 of this Act) in relation to counselling information requests.
(2)
The Secretary of State may discharge the duty in subsection (1) by arranging for another person to prepare a report about those matters.
(3)
As soon as is reasonably practicable after the end of the review period, the Secretary of State must—
(a)
arrange for the report prepared under subsection (1) (or under arrangements under subsection (2)) to be published, and
(b)
lay the report before Parliament.
(4)
In this section—
“counselling information request” has the meaning given by section 44A(5) of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022;
“review period” means the period of three years beginning with the day on which section 28 of this Act comes into force.