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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 1999 (NO. 63 OF 1999) - SECT 82 Procedure by summons

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 1999 (NO. 63 OF 1999) - SECT 82

Procedure by summons

(1)     A police officer may not charge a young person at a police station with an offence unless satisfied that proceeding by way of a summons would not be effective.

(2)     For that purpose, the police officer must have regard to the need to achieve the purposes stated in paragraph 349W (1) (b) of the Crimes Act 1900 (Power of arrest without warrant by police officers).