P ART 2 15 D OMESTIC HOMICIDE AND SUICIDE REVIEWS Reviewable events 9 Domestic homicide or suicide review (1) In this Part, “domestic homicide or suicide review” means a review— (a) of the circumstances in which a domestic abuse death, or a connected death of a 20 young person, occurred, (b) held with a view to identifying the lessons to be learned from the death and the circumstances leading up to it. (2) In this section, “person A” is a person who has, or appears to have, behaved in an abusive manner towards another person (“person B”) who, at the time of the behaviour, 25 was— (a) person A’s partner or ex-partner, (b) person A’s child, (c) a child of person A’s partner or ex-partner, or (d) a young person, not falling within paragraphs (a) to (c), living in the same 30 household as— (i) person A, or (ii) person A’s partner or ex-partner. (3) A domestic abuse death is one where it is, or appears to be, the case that— (a) person B has or may have died (otherwise than by suicide) as a result of person 35 A’s abusive behaviour, (b) person B has died by suicide and person A’s abusive behaviour is or may be a contributing factor to person B’s death, or 17 Criminal Justice Modernisation and Abusive Domestic Behaviour Reviews (Scotland) Bill Part 2—Domestic homicide and suicide reviews (c) both— (i) person B has killed person A, and (ii) persons A and B were partners or ex-partners. (4) But where person B’s relationship to person A at the time of the abusive behaviour was 5 as mentioned in subsection (2)(d), a death is a domestic abuse death only if person B was a young person at the time of the death. (5) A connected death of a young person is one where it is, or appears to be, the case that a young person has been killed as a result of— (a) an incident which also resulted in a domestic abuse death, or 10 (b) person A’s abusive behaviour towards person B. 1 (6) Where— (a) there is to be a domestic homicide or suicide review in respect of a death, and (b) the person whose behaviour resulted in, or appears to have resulted in, the death has died by suicide, 15 the review may also encompass the circumstances in which that suicide occurred. (7) For the purposes of this section— (a) a reference to behaviour which is abusive (however expressed...