Post Office (Horizon System) Offences (Scotland) Act 2024 Explanatory Notes

1. Introduction

2. The Act

3. Crown Application

   1. Section 1 – Quashing of convictions for relevant offences

   2. Section 2 – Meaning of “relevant offence”

   3. Section 3 – Identification and notification of quashed convictions

   4. Section 4 – Deletion of details of alternatives to prosecution for relevant offences

   5. Section 5 – Provision of information

   6. Section 6 – Report on the operation of the Act

   7. Section 7 – Consequential provision

   8. Section 8 – Ancillary provision

   9. Section 9 – Interpretation

   10. Section 10 – Commencement

   11. Section 11 – Short title

4. Parliamentary History