Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32)

SCHEDULES

Prospective

SCHEDULE 11 U.K. Cautions: consequential amendments

Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (c. 12) E+W

35 (1) Section 102 (out-of-court disposals) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (2)—

(a) after paragraph (b) insert—

“(ba) a person authorised by a prosecution authority under section 98(7) of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 for purposes relating to diversionary or community cautions;”;

(b) in paragraph (c), omit “section 22 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (conditional cautions) or”.

(3) In subsection (6)—

(a) in the definition of “caution”, for the words from “includes” to “2003” substitute “means a diversionary or community caution given under Part 6 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022”;

(b) for the definition of “investigating officer” and “relevant prosecutor” substitute—

• ““investigating officer” has the meaning given by section 121 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022;

• “relevant prosecutor” has the meaning given by section 66H of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998;”.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 11 para. 35 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 208(1)