SENTENCING ACT 1995 - SECT 26

SENTENCING ACT 1995 - SECT 26

26 .         Court’s functions in relation to victim impact statement

        (1)         A court may make a written victim impact statement available to the prosecutor and to the offender, on such conditions as it thinks fit.

        (2)         A court may rule as inadmissible the whole or any part of a victim impact statement.

        (3)         A court must, after imposing a sentence of imprisonment on an offender, make available to the Prisoners Review Board a copy of any victim impact statement given to the court under section 24.

        [Section 26 amended: No. 45 of 2016 s. 55.]