Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Regulation 2016
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38 Cautions
38 Cautions
(1) If a detained person or protected suspect who is a vulnerable person is given a caution, the custody manager or other person giving the caution must take appropriate steps to ensure that the detained person or protected suspect understands the caution.
(2) If the detained person or protected suspect is given a caution in the absence of a support person, the caution must be given again in the presence of a support person, if one attends during the person’s detention.
(3) A reference in this clause to the giving of a caution is a reference to the giving of a caution that the person does not have to say or do anything but that anything the person does say or do may be used in evidence.