PART 6Cautions

Supplementary

121Interpretation of Part 6

In this Part—

“the 1984 Act” means the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984;

“authorised person” has the meaning given by section 98(7);

“community remedy document” means the community remedy document (as revised from time to time) published under section 101 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 for the police area where the offence in question was committed;

“excluded offence” has the meaning given by section 98(6);

“indictable-only offence” means an offence which, if committed by an adult, is triable only on indictment;

“investigating officer” means—

(a)

an officer of Revenue and Customs appointed in accordance with section 2(1) of the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005, or

(b)

a person designated as a policing support officer or a policing support volunteer under section 38 of the Police Reform Act 2002;

“police detention” has the same meaning as in the 1984 Act (see section 118(2) of that Act);

“prosecution authority” means—

(a)

the Attorney General;

(b)

the Director of Public Prosecutions;

(c)

the Director of the Serious Fraud Office;

(d)

the Secretary of State;

(e)

a person prescribed in regulations;

“victim”, in relation to an offence, means the particular person who appears to have been affected, or principally affected, by the offence.