Prospective

Part 3 S Victims’ rights to receive information and to give views

51 Provision of transcript of record of trial to certain complainers S

(1) The 1995 Act is amended as follows.

(2) In section 94 (transcripts of record and documentary productions)—

(a) after subsection (2) insert—

“(2ZA) The Clerk of Justiciary must direct that such a transcript be made and sent to a complainer that has requested it, if the complainer was a complainer in a trial that—

(a) was of an offence as described in section 288C(2) (certain sexual offences),

(b) was in the High Court or the Sexual Offences Court, and

(c) commenced on or after 31 December 2006.”,

(b) after subsection (9) insert—

“(10) In this section, “complainer” means a person against whom an offence to which the trial related was alleged to have been committed.”.

Commencement Information

I1 S. 51 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 116(2)