Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Act 2024
Quashing of convictions
1Quashing of convictions for relevant offences
2Meaning of “relevant offence”
3Determining when a conviction has been considered by Court of Appeal
4Identification and notification of quashed convictions
Deletion of cautions
5Deletion of cautions for relevant offences: England and Wales
6Deletion of cautions for relevant offences: Northern Ireland
Supplementary and final provision
7Consequential provision
8Power of Secretary of State to make further consequential provision
9Power of Department of Justice to make further consequential provision
10Interpretation
11Extent and commencement
12Short title

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Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Act 2024

2024 CHAPTER 14

An Act to provide for the quashing of convictions in England and Wales and Northern Ireland for certain offences alleged to have been committed while the Horizon system was in use by the Post Office; to make provision about the deletion of cautions given in England and Wales or Northern Ireland for such offences; and for connected purposes.

Be it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—