Subsection (1) amends the Prisons Act 1952 with subsection (2) providing for the Commissioner for Victims and Witnesses to be added to the mandatory list of consultees on the inspectorates’ work programmes and frameworks.
	Subsection (3) adds provisions to the Prison Act 1952 (which includes provision for His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons) to provide for the Secretary of State, Lord Chancellor, and the Attorney General to jointly require that the criminal justice inspectorates’ joint inspection programme includes provision for inspections, at specified times, of specified matters relating to the experiences and treatment of victims. It also sets out that "specified" means specified in the joint direction, and "victim" has the meaning given in section 1 of the Act.
Part 1: Victims of Criminal Conduct Inspections by criminal justice inspectorates Section 23: His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons