Paragraph 189 Armed Forces Victim Contact SchemeI1

United Kingdom

If you are eligible, and choose to take part in the Armed Forces Victim Contact Scheme you are entitled to the information set out in this paragraph only where there is a danger or an identified risk of harm to you, in which case the information will be provided without unnecessary delay^f1:

(1)

decide whether you want to receive information about key stages of the offender’s sentence;

(2)

be given the details of a person who will be your point of contact for the scheme;

(3)

be told when the offender is released from the Military Corrective Training Centre, prison or hospital and any conditions put on them which relate to you;

(4)

be told about any other important information which the Commandant of the Military Corrective Training Centre thinks you should be told.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Sch. para. 189 in force at 16.11.2015, see reg. 1

Footnotes

f1: You are not, however, entitled to this information if there is an identified risk of harm to the suspect which would result from the notification.