(company number SC317274). (4) In appointing members under subsection (2)(c)(ii), the Scottish Ministers must ensure that the committee includes representatives of voluntary organisations which provide 30 services to individuals in Scotland. (5) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations modify subsection (3) so as to add a person, vary the description of a person, or remove a person. (6) Before making regulations under subsection (5), the Scottish Ministers must consult the person in respect of which they propose to make regulations. 35 (7) In this section, “voluntary organisation” means a body (other than a public authority), otherwise than for profit. the activities of which are carried on 26 Criminal Justice Modernisation and Abusive Domestic Behaviour Reviews (Scotland) Bill Part 2—Domestic homicide and suicide reviews 12 Case review panels (1) The review oversight committee must, as and when required for the purpose of securing the carrying out of a domestic homicide or suicide review— (a) establish a case review panel to carry out the review, and 5 (b) maintain the panel for the duration of the review. (2) The Scottish Ministers must appoint a pool of 3 or more individuals as panel chairs. (3) A panel is to consist of— (a) a member appointed to chair the panel, selected by the committee from among those appointed under subsection (2), 10 (b) such other members as the committee determines. 1 (4) An individual is not to be appointed as a panel chair or as another member of a panel if the individual is or, within the 3 years preceding the date on which the appointment is to take effect, has been a member of the review oversight committee. 13 Committee and panels: further provision 15 (1) The schedule makes further provision in respect of— (a) in relation to the review oversight committee— (i) the chair appointed by virtue of section 11(2)(a), (ii) the deputy chair appointed by virtue of section 11(2)(b), (iii) the appointment of a person to carry out the functions of the chair where 20 those functions cannot be carried out by a person mentioned in sub-paragraph (i) or (ii), (b) panel chairs appointed under section 12(2). (2) Members of the review oversight committee appointed by virtue of section 11(2)(c)— (a) are appointed on such terms and conditions as the Scottish Ministers determine, 25 (b) may be paid such expenses as the Scottish Ministers determine. (3) Panel members appointed by virtue of section 12(3)(b)— (a) are appointed on such terms and conditions as the review oversight committee, with the consent of the Scottish Ministers, determines, (b) may be paid such expenses as the Scottish Ministers determine. 30 Notification of potentially reviewable deaths 14 Notification of deaths (1) A notifying body must— (a) notify the review oversight committee in writing of any death of which the notifying body is aware which it believes is a reviewable death, and 35 (b) provide the Scottish Ministers with a copy of any such notification. 27 Criminal Justice Modernisation and Abusive Domestic Behaviour Reviews (Scotland) Bill Part 2—Domestic homicide and suicide reviews (2) The Scottish Ministers may make a written referral to the committee where they become aware of a death— (a) which they believe is, or may be, a reviewable death, and (b) in respect of which a copy of a notification has not been provided to them under 5 subsection (1)(b). (3) Where the Scottish Ministers make a referral under subsection (2), they must provide each notifying body with a copy of the referral. (4) A person who gives a notification or makes a referral to the committee under this section must include as part of the notification or referral such information within the person’s 10 possession or control as the person considers is likely to be of assistance to the committee 1 for the purposes of its consideration under section 16(1). (5) For the purposes of this section and sections 15, 16 and 16B— “notifying body” means— (a) the chief constable of the Police Service of Scotland, 15 (b) the Lord Advocate, (c) the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner, “reviewable death” means a death which is capable of being the subject of, or encompassed by, a domestic homicide or suicide review. 15 Revocation of notification 20 (1) A person who gives a notification or makes a referral of a death under section 14 (“the original notice”) may, at any time prior to a decision being made under section 16(1)(a) as to whether the death is reviewable, revoke the original notice. (2) The power conferred by subsection (1)— (a) may be exercised only where the person exercising it believes that the death to 25 which the original notice relates is not a reviewable death, and (b) is exercised by the person giving written notice to the review oversight committee, setting out the person’s reasons for that belief. (3) Where a person gives a notice of revocation under subsection (1), the person must provide a copy of it— 30 (a) where the notice is given by a notifying body, to the Scottish Ministers, (b) where the notice is given by the Scottish Ministers, to each notifying body. (4) Where notice of a revocation is given under subsection (1)— (a) the original notice to which it relates is to be treated for the purposes of this Part as never having been given, and 35 (b) consideration of the death under section 16 is to be discontinued, unless and to the extent that it is predicated on another notification or referral which has not been revoked. 28 Criminal Justice Modernisation and Abusive Domestic Behaviour Reviews (Scotland) Bill Part 2—Domestic homicide and suicide reviews Sift stage 16 Determination as to whether to hold a review (1) Following notification or a referral of a death under section 14, the review oversight committee must— 5 (a) satisfy itself as to whether the death is a reviewable death, and (b) where it is so satisfied— (i) determine whether a domestic homicide or suicide review should be carried out in respect of the death, or (ii) if the committee is unable to reach a unanimous decision and the chair of 10 the committee so decides, refer the question to the Scottish Ministers for 1 their determination. (2) A determination under subsection (1)(b) is to be based on— (a) the likelihood of the review identifying lessons to be learned from the death or the circumstances leading up to it which would improve Scottish practice in— 15 (i) the safeguarding of those affected by abusive domestic behaviour, or (ii) the promotion of the wellbeing of victims of abusive domestic behaviour, (b) whether any Scottish public authorities or voluntary organisations operating in Scotland were involved, or had the opportunity to be involved, in the circumstances leading up to the death, and 20 (c) where the persons who are persons A and B for the purpose of section 9 in relation to the death in question were not partners or ex-partners, whether and to what extent there appears to be a connection between— (i) the death, and (ii) abusive behaviour (within the meaning of section 9) between person A and 25 any partner or ex-partner of person A. (3) In assessing matters as mentioned in subsection (2), the factors to which regard is had must include— (a) the extent of the apparent connection between the abusive domestic behaviour and the death in question, 30 (b) the information available to the committee or a case review panel, or likely to be obtainable by either of them, in respect of the circumstances leading up to the death, (c) the extent of the connection which the persons mentioned in section 9(3) or (as the case may be) 9(5) have or had to Scotland. 35 (4) Where the committee is making a determination under subsection (1)(b)(i), it may, if the chair of the committee so decides, seek advice from the Scottish Ministers in relation to the making of the determination. 29 Criminal Justice Modernisation and Abusive Domestic Behaviour Reviews (Scotland) Bill Part 2—Domestic homicide and suicide reviews (5) Where the committee satisfies itself that a death is not reviewable or determines that a review should not be carried out in respect of it (whether or not advice has been sought under subsection (4))— (a) the chair of the committee must provide the Scottish Ministers with the committee’s 5 reasons for reaching that outcome, and (b) the Scottish Ministers may step in and direct the committee to secure the carrying out of a review in respect of the death. (6) The chair of the committee must, when making a referral under subsection (1)(b)(ii) or seeking advice under subsection (4), provide the Scottish Ministers with such information 10 within the chair’s possession or control as the chair considers is likely to be of assistance 1 to Ministers in the exercise of their functions under those subsections. (7) In this section— “abusive domestic behaviour” means abusive behaviour by person A towards person B, within the meaning of section 9(2), 15 “voluntary organisation” means a body (other than a public authority), the activities of which are carried on otherwise than for profit. 16A Determination as to whether to expand the remit of a review (1) Where the outcome of consideration of a death under section 16 is that a domestic homicide or suicide review is to be carried out in respect of the death, the review 20 oversight committee must, if subsection (2) applies to the death, determine whether to expand the remit of the review in accordance with subsection (3). (2) This subsection applies to a death only where— (a) it is a death mentioned in section 9(3)(a), and (b) either or both of the persons who are persons A and B for the purpose of that 25 section— (i) at the time of the death had a child who was— (A) a young person, or (B) an adult at risk, or (ii) at the time of the death had a young person, not falling within sub-paragraph 30 (i), living in their household. (3) Subject to subsection (5), the remit of a review may, in line with a determination under subsection (1), be expanded to also examine any or all of the following— (a) the extent to which the person mentioned in subsection (2)(b)(i) or (ii) (“the relevant person”) was able to provide views in relation to any decisions made by 35 a public authority in the period following on from the death which directly concerned the person’s welfare and in which the person’s best...