Sections 6 and 8 use the definition "elected local policing body", which has the meaning given by section 101 of the Police Act 1996, namely; (a) a police and crime commissioner, and (b) the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime. This is in contrast to the Section 13 duty which applies to "local policing bodies"; the difference being that "elected local policing bodies" does not include the Common Council for the city of London Police area. This is because the guidance will set out that Section 6 and 8 duties may be discharged within police and crime commissioner-chaired Local Criminal Justice Boards (LCJBs). The City of London police area does not have its own LCJB but is instead included within the London Criminal Justice Board. In addition, when criminal justice bodies break their data down to force area, London includes both City of London and the metropolitan police area. This approach has been confirmed as appropriate by the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners. For the purposes of these provisions, elected local policing bodies are referred to hereafter as PCCs.
	Section 6 places a duty on specified criminal justice bodies to take reasonable steps to promote awareness of the Victims’ Code and to keep under review whether and how their services are provided in accordance with their duty to provide services in accordance with the Victims’ Code unless they have a good reason not to do so (their "Code compliance").
	Subsection (1)(a) specifies that the bodies must take reasonable steps to promote awareness of the victims’ code among users of those services and other members of the public. Together this will ensure that those who are engaged with the criminal justice system, as well as those who do not report a crime, will be captured. The inclusion of ‘reasonable’ gives bodies the flexibility to tailor their approach in different circumstances. This allows for those working in the system to use their expertise to determine the most appropriate moment and method of sharing the Code.
	Subsection (1)(b) specifies that the bodies must keep their Code compliance under review. Criminal justice bodies must keep under review whether the services are being provided at all, as well as how they are delivering them (i.e. what ways are the services provided).
	Subsections (2)(a) – (c) place specific duties on criminal justice bodies in each police area to collect information and to share information about their Code compliance with each other and with the relevant PCC, and to jointly review the information shared with other criminal justice bodies and with the relevant PCC for that police area. Subsections (2) and (3) contain powers for the Secretary of State to prescribe in regulations the descriptions of information that should be collected and/or shared for the overall purpose of keeping Code compliance under review , as well as to prescribe the manner in which information must be collected, shared, and reviewed. The intention is that the information to be collected and shared will include; data on criminal justice bodies’ compliance with the delivery of responsible services under the Victims’ Code and information relating to the experiences of service users. Subsections (4)(a) – (e) set out a non-exhaustive list of matters that the regulations may prescribe. This includes different information to be collected or shared by the different bodies and in relation to different services provided under the Code, information relating to the characteristics or experiences of users of those services that should be collected and shared by criminal justice bodies, the times at which or periods within which information must be collected, shared or reviewed, and the form that it should be collected and shared 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, criminal justice bodies subject to the duty.
	Subsection (6) lists the bodies who are subject to both the duty to take reasonable steps to promote awareness of the Victims’ Code and to keep their Code compliance under review. In practice the specified criminal justice bodies will be the police, the Crown Prosecution Service, His Majesty’s Court and Tribunal Service, His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service and its executive agencies (His Majesty’s Prison Service, the Probation Service and the Youth Custody Service), and Youth Offending Teams.
	Subsection (7) defines the term "prison" for the purposes of subsection (6)(d).
Part 1: Victims of Criminal Conduct Victims’ Code Section 6: Code awareness and reviewing compliance: criminal justice bodies