Part 2

Domestic homicide and suicide reviews

Notification of potentially reviewable deaths

Revocation of notification
18
1
A person who gives a notification or makes a referral of a death under section 17 (“the original notice”) may, at any time prior to a decision being made under section 19(1)(a) as to whether the death is reviewable, revoke the original notice.
2
The power conferred by subsection (1)—
a
may be exercised only where the person exercising it believes that the death to which the original notice relates is not a reviewable death, and
b
is exercised by the person giving written notice to the review oversight committee, setting out the person’s reasons for that belief.
3
Where a person gives a notice of revocation under subsection (1), the person must provide a copy of it—
a
where the notice is given by a notifying body, to the Scottish Ministers,
b
where the notice is given by the Scottish Ministers, to each notifying body.
4
Where notice of a revocation is given under subsection (1)—
a
the original notice to which it relates is to be treated for the purposes of this Part as never having been given, and
b
consideration of the death under section 19 is to be discontinued, unless and to the extent that it is predicated on another notification or referral which has not been revoked.
S. 18 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 34(4)