# Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Act 2024, Section 7: Consequential provision

Extent: E+W+N.I.

(1) Except as otherwise provided by section 4 or this section, a person whose conviction is quashed by section 1(1) is to be treated as if, on the coming into force of this Act, the conviction had been quashed by a court on an appeal.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply for the purposes of paragraph 6(9) of Schedule 3 to the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (which provides for the setting aside of convictions of summary offences where the Court of Appeal allows an appeal against a conviction of a related indictable offence).
(3) In section 133 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (compensation for miscarriages of justice), the reference in subsection (5) to a conviction having been quashed on an appeal out of time includes a reference to a conviction having been quashed by section 1(1).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/14/section/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-horizon-system-offences-act-2024/section-7
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