17Records of warnings

17 Records of warnings

17 Records of warnings

(1) An investigating official must make a record of any warnings given by the official under this Part.

(2) The record is to contain the matters prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this section.

(3) Despite anything to the contrary in the State Records Act 1998 or any other law, the Commissioner of Police is to ensure that any record made under this section of a warning is destroyed or expunged (as the case requires) as soon as is reasonably practicable after the person to whom the record relates reaches the age of 21 years.

Note.

The Commissioner of Police may delegate this function. See section 31 of the Police Act 1990.

(4) This section does not require that a record made under this section be destroyed or expunged if the record is held by one of the following—

(a) the Australian Bureau of Statistics,

(b) the Australian Institute of Criminology,

(c) the Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research,

(d) the Ombudsman.

s 17: Am 1998 No 149, Sch 2.12 [1] [2]; 2007 No 73, Sch 4 [11]; 2012 No 67, Sch 3.5 [2]; 2013 No 35, Sch 6 [1] [2]; 2013 No 80, Sch 15 [1].