97Timing of youth warning

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97 Timing of youth warning

(1) A police officer who gives a youth warning to a child for an alleged offence must give the youth warning as soon as reasonably practicable after the commission of the alleged offence.

(2) Nothing in subsection (1) prevents a youth warning being given to a child for an alleged offence at any stage after a criminal proceeding has been commenced against the child for that offence.

See section 141.