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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-courts-act-2015/section-18",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2015/2",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-courts-act-2015",
  "path": "section/18",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Restrictions on use of cautions: supplementary",
  "text": "(1) An order under section 17 may make different provision for different purposes.\n(2) An order under section 17 must be made by statutory instrument.\n(3) A statutory instrument containing an order under section 17(3) (specification of either-way offences) is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.\n(4) An order under section 17(7) (change to period in section 17(4)(b)) may not be made unless a draft of the instrument containing the order has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.\n(5) In section 37B of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (consultation with the Director of Public Prosecutions), in subsection (7), after “such a caution” insert “ (whether because of section 17 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 or for any other reason) ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 18 in force at 13.4.2015 by S.I. 2015/778, art. 3, Sch. 1 para. 14"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2022/32",
      "affecting_title": "Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/2/section/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:07:15.088837+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}