{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victim-statement-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victim-statement-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2016/431",
  "legislation_title": "The Victim Statement Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victim-statement-regulations-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Making a supplementary victim statement",
  "text": "(1) A person who has made a victim statement may on request be afforded, either orally or in writing, an opportunity to make a statement supplementary to, or in amplification of, the victim statement unless, in all the circumstances of the case, it is impracticable to do so.\n(2) A statement made under paragraph (1) is referred to in these Regulations as a supplementary victim statement.\n(3) The opportunity to make a supplementary victim statement is to be afforded by—\n(a) a member of staff of Victim Support Northern Ireland;\n(b) a member of staff of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; or\n(c) a family liaison officer of the Police Service of Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/431/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:53:45.101423+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}