Crown Application Section 6 – Report on the operation of the Act
21.Section 6 requires the Scottish Ministers to publish a report on the operation of the Act. The report must be published and laid before the Scottish Parliament as soon as reasonably practicable after one year has elapsed from the Act coming into force. The report will therefore cover the first year of operation of the Act.
22.The report may contain information about anything to do with the operation of the Act but it must include the type of information set out in subsection (2). That information is the number of notifications of quashed convictions that have been given to the convicting courts and the individuals themselves, and the steps taken by the Scottish Ministers to identify quashed convictions and to give notifications to the individuals concerned.