YOUNG OFFENDERS ACT 1994 - SECT 22

YOUNG OFFENDERS ACT 1994 - SECT 22

22 .         Cautions may be given except for Sch. 1 or 2 offences

        (1)         Where circumstances arise in which a member of the Police Force could charge a young person with the commission of an offence, the member of the Police Force may, having regard to the circumstances, caution the person instead of laying a charge.

        (2)         The caution may be given orally or in writing.

        (3)         Subsection (1) does not allow a member of the Police Force to caution a person instead of laying a charge if the offence is a Schedule 1 offence or a Schedule 2 offence.

        (4)         If a caution is given any admission made by the person cautioned at or about the time the caution is given is not admissible in civil or other proceedings as evidence of any matter to which the caution refers.