The Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 (Victims’ Code of Practice) Order 2013

Made: 14th November 2013

Laid before Parliament: 18th November 2013

Coming into force: 10th December 2013

In accordance with section 33(6) of the Act, the Secretary of State laid the code of practice before Parliament on 29th October 2013.

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 (Victims’ Code of Practice) Order 2013 and comes into force on 10th December 2013.

Date on which the Code of Practice comes into operation

2

The revised code of practice entitled “The Code of Practice for Victims of Crime” laid before Parliament on 29th October 2013 shall come into operation on 10th December 2013.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Justice

Damian Green — Minister of State — Ministry of Justice — 14th November 2013

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order brings the revised code of practice entitled “The Code of Practice for Victims of Crime” into operation on 10th December 2013. The revised code of practice replaces the code of practice that was brought into operation on 3rd April 2006 by S.I. 2006/629.

Online copies of the revised code of practice can be accessed at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-code-of-practice-for-victims-of-crime and hard copies can be obtained by emailing JusticeReformDirectorate@justice.gsi.gov.uk or writing to the following address:

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2004 c. 28; sections 32 and 33 were amended by article 8 of, and paragraph 10(1) to (3) of Part 1 of the Schedule to, S.I. 2007/2128.