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# The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (Counselling Services) Regulations 2025

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

2025 No. 1259
POLICE
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (Counselling Services) Regulations 2025
Made
2nd December 2025
Laid before Parliament
3rd December 2025
Coming into force
12th January 2026
The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the power conferred by section 44A(5) (including as applied by section 44F(1)) of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022.

## 1 Citation, commencement and extent {#regulation-1}

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (Counselling Services) Regulations 2025 and come into force on 12th January 2026.
(2) These Regulations extend to England and Wales, subject as follows.
(3) Insofar as these Regulations relate to the persons mentioned in section 44F(2) (application of Chapter 3A to service police etc) of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, these Regulations extend to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

## 2 Description of counselling services {#regulation-2}

A counselling service is of a description specified for the purpose of section 44A(5) of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 if it is a service, whether paid or unpaid, offering psychological or emotional support to a service user for the purpose of improving the service user’s emotional or mental health.