{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-and-courts-act-2026/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-and-courts-act-2026/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2026/19",
  "legislation_title": "Victims and Courts Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-and-courts-act-2026",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Commissioner’s power to act in individual cases relevant to public policy",
  "text": "(1) Section 51 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 (restrictions on exercise of victims’ commissioner’s functions) is amended as follows.\n(2) The existing text becomes subsection (1).\n(3) In that subsection, in paragraph (a), at the end insert “, except as mentioned in subsection (2)”.\n(4) After that subsection insert—\n“(2) Where the Commissioner considers that—\n(a) the case of a particular victim or witness raises issues of public policy of relevance to other victims or witnesses, and\n(b) the exercise of a function of the Commissioner in relation to that case is likely to promote the interests of other victims or witnesses in relation to those issues of public policy,\nthe Commissioner may exercise that function for that purpose.”\n(5) The amendments made by this section have effect in relation to a person who is a victim or witness regardless of when the conduct in relation to which the person is a victim or witness occurred.\n(6) In subsection (5) “victim” and “witness” have the meaning given by section 52 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 8 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 18(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/19/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:41:27.867027+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."
}