Post Office (Horizon System) Offences (Scotland) Bill [AS INTRODUCED] An Act of the Scottish Parliament to provide for the quashing of certain convictions for offences of dishonesty connected to the carrying on of a post office business at a time when the Horizon system was in use; to provide for the deletion of details of alternatives to prosecution in relation to such offences; and for connected purposes. 5 Quashing of convictions 1 Quashing of convictions for relevant offences (1) Every conviction to which this Act applies is quashed on the coming into force of this Act. (2) This Act applies to a conviction in Scotland for a relevant offence where— 10 (a) the conviction took place before the coming into force of this Act, and 1 (b) the conviction has not been considered by the High Court (see section 3). 2 Meaning of “relevant offence” (1) For the purposes of this Act, an offence alleged to have been committed by a person is a “relevant offence” if conditions A to E are met. 15 (2) Condition A is that the offence was alleged to have been committed— (a) on a date...