153.Section 2 of the 2014 Act requires the Lord Advocate, the Scottish Ministers, Police Scotland, the Scottish Court Service, and the Parole Board for Scotland to publish standards of service in relation to the carrying out of their functions in relation to victims. Section 2(3) provides that the relevant functions of the Scottish Ministers are those relating to prisons and young offenders institutions, and persons detained in them. Section 44 expands this to include functions of the Scottish Ministers which relate to persons subject to compulsion orders and restriction orders, persons subject to hospital directions, or persons subject to transfer for treatment directions. This means that the standards of service in relation to victims which the Scottish Ministers are required to publish under section 2(1) of the 1995 Act must cover the carrying out of those Scottish Ministers functions in relation to victims of persons subject to such measures.
Crown Application Part 3 – Victims’ Rights to Receive Information Section 44 – standards of service