Commentary on provisions of Act Section 7: Consequential provision
Subsection 7(1) provides that a person whose conviction is quashed by this Act of Parliament is to be treated, save for as provided for by Section 4 and this section, as if, on the day on which the Act came into force, the conviction had been quashed by a court on an appeal.
	Subsection 7(2) provides that subsection (1) does not apply to convictions quashed by this Act of Parliament for the purposes of paragraph 7(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). This means that, unlike when a conviction for an indictable offence is quashed by the Court of Appeal and convictions for any related summary offences are set aside, where a conviction on indictment is quashed by this Act of Parliament, no related summary convictions will be quashed unless they are also convictions to which Section 1 applies.
	Subsection 7(3) provides that convictions quashed by this Act of Parliament are to be treated as "convictions quashed on an appeal out of time" for the purposes of section 133 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 which deals with eligibility for compensation for miscarriages of justice. This is to ensure that a person whose conviction is quashed by this Act of Parliament is not excluded from the compensation for miscarriages of justice scheme where the criteria for that scheme are met. Although compensation under section 133 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 will remain available in principle, it is expected that it is unlikely that many individuals who have their convictions quashed under the Act will seek to access this compensation due to the requirement to demonstrate that the threshold for compensation under section 133 has been met and the fact that any losses are very likely to be covered by the Overturned Convictions scheme.