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Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015

Section 18: Restrictions on use of cautions: supplementary

210.Section 18 sets out the different parliamentary procedures for the orders that the Secretary of State may make under section 17 and provides that an order must be made by statutory instrument.

211.Subsection (5) contains an amendment to section 37B(7) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984. That section is about the decision of the Director of Public Prosecutions as to whether a person should be charged or cautioned. Under section 38B(7), if the DPP decides that a person should be cautioned, but it proves not to be possible to give a caution, the person must be charged. The amendment contained in subsection (5) makes clear that section 17 is to be taken into account in determining whether a caution is possible or not.

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