# Victims and Courts Act 2026, Section 9: Duty to co-operate with Commissioner: anti-social behaviour

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.
Status: prospective

(1) The Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 is amended as follows.
(2) After section 51A (duty to co-operate with Commissioner) insert—
“Duty to co-operate with Commissioner: anti-social behaviour
51B (1) The Commissioner may request a local authority or a relevant provider of social housing to co-operate with the Commissioner in any way that the Commissioner considers necessary for the purposes of the Commissioner’s functions, so far as those functions are exercisable in respect of victims and witnesses of anti-social behaviour.
(2) But such a request may be made to a relevant provider of social housing only in respect of matters that relate to social housing.
(3) A local authority or a relevant provider of social housing must comply with a request made to it under this section, so far as it is appropriate and reasonably practicable for the authority or the provider to do so.
(4) In this section—
“local authority”—
(a) in relation to England, means—
(i) a district council;
(ii) a county council;
(iii) a combined authority established under section 103 of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009;
(iv) a combined county authority established under section 9 of the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023;
(v) a London borough council;
(vi) the Common Council of the City of London in its capacity as a local authority;
(vii) the Council of the Isles of Scilly;
(b) in relation to Wales, means a county council or a county borough council;
“relevant provider of social housing” means a private registered provider of social housing or a body registered as a social landlord under section 3 of the Housing Act 1996;
“social housing” has the same meaning as in Part 2 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008.”
(3) In section 51A, in the heading, at the end insert “: providers of victims’ code services”.
(4) In section 52 (meaning of “victims” and “witnesses” etc), in subsection (1), for “51” substitute “51B”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/19/section/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/victims-and-courts-act-2026/section-9
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