115Record of youth caution

115 Record of youth caution

(1) A cautioning police officer who gives or attends the giving of a youth caution to a child must make a record of the youth caution.

(2) The record must—

(b) contain any prescribed information.

A youth caution must not be recorded on a child's criminal record or form part of the child's criminal history, and the giving of a youth caution in respect of an alleged offence is not to be treated as a finding of guilt that the child committed the offence—see section 139.

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