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Victims and Prisoners Act 2024

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13Duty to collaborate in exercise of victim support functions

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(1)The relevant authorities for a police area in England must collaborate with each other in the exercise in the area of their functions in relation to relevant victim support services.

(2)A relevant authority exercises a function in relation to relevant victim support services if it exercises the function in relation to—

(a)the provision of such services, or

(b)the commissioning of such services provided by another person.

(3)The “relevant authorities” for a police area in England are—

(a)the local policing body for the police area,

(b)an integrated care board, established under Chapter A3 of Part 2 of the National Health Service Act 2006, all or part of whose area falls within the police area, and

(c)a local authority, all or part of whose area falls within the police area.

(4)For the purposes of subsection (3)(c), “local authority” means—

(a)a county council,

(b)a district council for an area for which there is no county council,

(c)the Greater London Authority, or

(d)the Council of the Isles of Scilly.

(5)“Relevant victim support service” means a service, other than accommodation-based support, provided to support victims of criminal conduct which constitutes—

(a)domestic abuse,

(b)conduct of a sexual nature, or

(c)serious violence.

(6)In subsection (5), “accommodation-based support” and “domestic abuse” have the same meanings as in the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 (see sections 1 and 57 of that Act).

(7)For the purposes of subsection (5)(c), “violence” includes—

(a)violence against property, and

(b)threats of violence,

but does not include terrorism within the meaning of the Terrorism Act 2000 (see section 1 of that Act).

(8)In considering whether violence amounts to serious violence, the relevant authorities must, in particular, take into account—

(a)the maximum penalty which could be imposed for any offence which the conduct constitutes, and

(b)the impact of the conduct on any victim.

(9)Collaboration under this section may include the processing of information within the meaning given by section 3 of the Data Protection Act 2018.

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