Youth Justice Act 2024
93Record of reasons if youth warning, youth caution or early diversion group conference is inappropriate
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93 Record of reasons if youth warning, youth caution or early diversion group conference is inappropriate
(1) If a police officer makes any of the following decisions under the hierarchy of options, the police officer must make a record of the reasons for that decision—
(a) that it is clearly inappropriate in the circumstances to give a youth warning to the child for the alleged offence;
(b) that it is clearly inappropriate in the circumstances to give a youth caution to the child for the alleged offence;
(c) that it is clearly inappropriate in the circumstances to refer the child to participate in an early diversion group conference for the alleged offence.
(2) The record of reasons must—
(b) address the matters specified in section 92(2); and
(c) contain any other prescribed information.