Victims and Prisoners Act 2024

8 Reviewing code compliance: elected local policing bodies

(1) The elected local policing body for a police area must keep under review whether and how criminal justice bodies which provide services in the police area provide those services in accordance with the duty in section 5(1).

(2) The elected local policing body for a police area must, in particular, undertake the following activities in such manner as may be prescribed—

(a) provide the Secretary of State with information shared with it under section 6(2)(b), or such of that information as may be prescribed;

(b) participate in any review under section 6(2)(c);

(c) provide the Secretary of State with such reports, on such matters in connection with a review under section 6(2)(c), as may be prescribed.

(3) In subsection (2), “prescribed” means prescribed in regulations made by the Secretary of State.

(4) Regulations under subsection (2) may, in particular—

(a) prescribe the times at which, or periods within which, information or a report must be provided;

(b) prescribe the form in which information or a report must be provided, or require information or a report to be provided in such form as may be specified in a notice issued from time to time by the Secretary of State.

(5) Before making regulations under this section, the Secretary of State must consult the Commissioner for Victims and Witnesses and such other persons as the Secretary of State considers appropriate (and it is immaterial for these purposes whether the consultation is carried out before or after this section comes into force).

(6) In this section, “criminal justice body” has the meaning given by section 6(6).