The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (Commencement No. 1) (England and Wales) Regulations 2023

Savings: Offensive Weapons Homicide Reviews

4.—(1) The provisions of the Act specified in regulation 3 continue in effect in relation to the death of a person where, before the end of the pilot period—

(a) an Offensive Weapons Homicide Review in respect of the person’s death started and was not discontinued(1), or

(b) notwithstanding that an Offensive Weapons Homicide Review had not started, a review partner was aware of qualifying circumstances in relation to the person’s death(2) and the circumstances specified in paragraph (2) were not met.

(2) The circumstances are that the review partner—

(a) was also aware that no duty to arrange a review under section 24 of the Act in respect of the person’s death arose because of section 26 of the Act, or

(b) gave notification to the Secretary of State that they were not under a duty to arrange a review under section 24 of the Act in respect of the person’s death and did not give subsequent notification that they were under that duty(3).

(1)

See section 24(3) of the 2022 Act in relation to discontinuation of reviews.

(2)

See section 27(7) of the 2022 Act in relation to the expression “aware of qualifying circumstances” in relation to a person’s death.

(3)

See section 24(3) to (5) of the 2022 Act in relation to circumstances where a review partner is not under a duty to arrange for there to be a review, and section 27(1), (3), (4) and (6) of that Act in relation to notification of the Secretary of State.