Overview of the Act
- The Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Act 2024 will quash the convictions of sub-postmasters and others who worked, including on a voluntary basis, in post office branches (all referred to below as "postmasters") who have suffered as a consequence of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal. It will quash, on a blanket basis, convictions for various theft, fraud and related offences during the period of the Horizon scandal in England and Wales.
- The Act contains ten sections.
- Section 1: Quashing of convictions for relevant offences
- Section 2: Meaning of "relevant offence"
- Section 3: Determining when a conviction has been considered by Court of Appeal
- Section 4: Identification and notification of quashed convictions
- Section 5: Deletion of cautions for relevant offences: England and Wales
- Section 6: Deletion of cautions for relevant offences: Northern Ireland
- Section 7: Consequential provision
- Section 8: Power of Secretary of State to make further consequential provision
- Section 9: Power of Department of Justice to make further consequential provision
- Section 10: Interpretation
- Section 11: Extent and commencement
- Section 12: Short title
