Common use of Functions of the Commission Clause in Contracts

Functions of the Commission. (1) The Commission must— (a) seek and receive information about deaths within the remit of the Commission about which eligible family requests are made; and (b) receive information about other deaths within the remit of the Commission. (2) In cases where an eligible family request for information about a death is made, the Commission must keep the person who made the request informed about the progress of the request. (3) The Commission must prepare and provide reports in accordance with section 42 (the “reporting function”). (4) The Commission has the other functions conferred by the ICIR agreement. (5) The Commission must exercise its functions in accordance with the provisions of this Part and the ICIR agreement. (6) In particular, the Commission must exercise the reporting function in accordance with section 46 and Article 11 of the ICIR agreement. (1) If a person makes an eligible family request for information about a death within the remit of the Commission, the Commission must provide a written report to that person at the conclusion of its enquiries into that death (a “family report”). (2) A family report must contain only information the credibility of which has been established to the satisfaction of the Commission (3) The Commission must provide the Implementation and Reconciliation Group with a written report on— (a) patterns and themes it has identified from its work, and (b) the level of co-operation it has received in carrying out its work. (4) Subsection (3) does not prevent the Commission from providing the Implementation and Reconciliation Group with an interim written report on any of those matters before the Commission provides the Group with the report in accordance with that subsection. (5) The Commission must provide the Implementation and Reconciliation Group with the report under subsection (3) on the last day of the period of 5 years beginning with the day on which this section comes into force (or, if that day is not a working day, on the last working day before it). (6) A report provided to the Implementation and Reconciliation Group in accordance with subsection (3) or (4)— (a) must be given by the Commission only to the person chairing that Group; and (b) must not be otherwise disclosed by the Commission unless— (i) the report has been shared by the person chairing that Group in accordance with section 61 and that person has authorised the Commission to disclose the report, or (ii) the academic report commissioned in accordance with section 62 has been produced. (7) The Commission must publish an annual report (an “ICIR annual report”) on— (a) the finances of the Commission; (b) the administration of the Commission; (c) the number of requests for information made to the Commission; (d) the number of family reports that have been provided to persons requesting them; and (e) other data relating to the volume of information about deaths received by the Commission. (8) Each ICIR annual report must include a statement of the number of notifications under section 46(2)(b) which the Secretary of State has, in the financial year concerned, given to the Commission. (9) The Commission must provide copies of each ICIR annual report to— (a) Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom, and