Section 22 creates a statutory requirement for the Secretary of State to supply a victim with a transcript of relevant sentencing remarks, free of charge, on request. Subsections (1) and (2) contain this statutory requirement.
	Subsection (3) creates a power for the Secretary of State to make regulations which make provision about the procedure for requesting transcripts including how requests should be made, exceptions to the requirement and the omission of information from transcripts.
	Subsections (10) and (11) empower the Secretary of State to define the term "victim" for these purposes in regulations, as well as to make provision about the circumstances in which sentencing remarks are relevant to the victim.
	Regulations under this section must be made by statutory instrument and are subject to the affirmative parliamentary procedure. As a result of subsection (8), the Secretary of State is required to consult the Lady Chief Justice before making regulations under this section.
	Subsection (5) provides that the Criminal Procedure Rules may make provision about the supply of a transcript as a result of this duty.
Part 1: Sentencing Section 22: Provision of transcripts of sentencing remarks to victims