Victims and Courts Act 2026
Victims and Courts Act 2026 (2026 c. 19)
- Victims and Courts Act 2026 (2026 c. 19)
- Attendance at sentencing hearings
- 1 Power to compel attendance at sentencing hearing
- 2 Power to compel attendance at sentencing hearing: armed forces
- Restricting parental responsibility
- 3 Restricting parental responsibility of certain sex offenders
- 4 Restricting parental responsibility for child conceived as a result of rape
- 5 Sections 3 and 4: consequential amendments
- Victims’ rights
- 6 Victims’ rights to make disclosures relating to criminal conduct
- 7 Victims’ rights to make representations and receive information etc
- Victims’ Commissioner
- 8 Commissioner’s power to act in individual cases relevant to public policy
- 9 Duty to co-operate with Commissioner: anti-social behaviour
- 10 Duty of Commissioner to report on compliance with victims’ code
- Prosecutions
- 11 Appointment of Crown Prosecutors
- 12 Private prosecutions: regulations about costs payable out of central funds
- Sentencing reviews etc
- 13 Reviews of sentencing: time limits
- 14 Reviews of sentencing: duty to notify victims
- 15 Terms of imprisonment for certain offences on summary conviction
- Final provisions
- 16 Power to make consequential provision
- 17 Extent
- 18 Commencement and transitional provision
- 19 Short title
- Schedules
- Schedule 1 Restriction of parental responsibility: serious sexual offences
- Schedule 2 Victims’ rights to make representations and receive information etc
- Part 1 Representations and information
- Introduction
- Imprisonment or detention
- Hospital orders
- Hospital directions
- Transfer directions
- Part 2 Information
- Introduction
- Victims’ rights to receive information
- Part 3 Representations and information: offences
- Offences
- Part 4 Consequential and other provision
- Introduction
- Consequential provision etc
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