Subsection (1) places a duty on Police and Crime Commissioners in each police area to keep under review whether and how the criminal justice bodies in their area are providing their services in accordance with their duty to provide services in accordance with the Victims’ Code unless they have a good reason not to do so ("Code compliance"). . PCCs must keep under review whether the services are being provided at all, as well as how the bodies are delivering them (i.e. in what ways are the services provided).
	Subsection (2)(a)-(c) place specific duties on PCCs to participate in the joint review of information provided to them by criminal justice bodies under Section 6(2)(b)(ii) and to provide the Secretary of State with such of that information as may be prescribed by the Secretary of State. Subsection (2)(c) sets out that PCCs must provide the Secretary of State with reports on matters in connection with the joint review, and the intention is to use the regulations to prescribe a list of set matters that the reports should include, such as key insights generated from the joint review and the sharing of best practices. Subsections (2) and (3) create powers for the Secretary of State to make regulations prescribing the information and reports to be shared with the Secretary of State. Subsection (4)(a) and (b) sets out a non-exhaustive list of matters that the regulations may include. This includes the times at which or periods within which information must be collected, shared, or reviewed and the form in which information or reports are to be provided by PCCs to the Secretary of State including as may be specified in a notice issued from time to time by the Secretary of State.
	Subsection (5) places a duty on the Secretary of State to consult the Victims’ Commissioner and such other persons as the Secretary of State considers appropriate before making regulations. This enables discretion for targeted consultation with those affected and with a specific interest, which it is anticipated may include, for example, PCCs subject to the duty.
Part 1: Victims of Criminal Conduct Victims’ Code Section 8: Reviewing code compliance: elected local policing bodies