Number 28 of 2017

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (VICTIMS OF CRIME) ACT 2017

REVISED

Updated to 3 May 2023

Introduction

This Revised Act presents the text of the Act as it has been amended since enactment, and preserves the format in which it was passed.

Related legislation

This Act is not collectively cited with any other Act.

Annotations

This Revised Act is annotated and includes textual and non-textual amendments, statutory instruments made pursuant to the Act and previous affecting provisions.

An explanation of how to read annotations is available at

www.lawreform.ie/annotations.

Material not updated in this revision

Where other legislation is amended by this Act, those amendments may have been superseded by other amendments in other legislation, or the amended legislation may have been repealed or revoked. This information is not represented in this revision but will be reflected in a revision of the amended legislation if one is available.

Where legislation or a fragment of legislation is referred to in annotations, changes to this legislation or fragment may not be reflected in this revision but will be reflected in a revision of the legislation referred to if one is available.

A list of legislative changes to any Act, and to statutory instruments from 1972, may be found linked from the page of the Act or statutory instrument at

www.irishstatutebook.ie.

Acts which affect or previously affected this revision

• Criminal Justice (Mutual Recognition of Custodial Sentences) Act 2023 (3/2023)

• Parole Act 2019 (28/2019)

• Domestic Violence Act 2018 (6/2018)

All Acts up to and including Patient Safety (Notifiable Incidents and Open Disclosure) Act 2023 (10/2023), enacted 2 May 2023, were considered in the preparation of this revision.

Statutory instruments which affect or previously affected this revision

• Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Act 2017 (Commencement) Order 2022 (S.I. No. 309 of 2022)

• Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Act 2017 (Commencement) Order 2021 (S.I. No. 694 of 2021)

• Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Act 2017 (Commencement) Order 2018 (S.I. No. 173 of 2018)

• Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Act 2017 (Commencement) Order 2017 (S.I. No. 530 of 2017)

All statutory instruments up to and including Criminal Justice (Mutual Recognition of Custodial Sentences) Act 2023 (Commencement) Order 2023 (S.I. No. 213 of 2023), made 2 May 2023, were considered in the preparation of this revision.