{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-act-2022/section-98",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-act-2022/section-98.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/32",
  "legislation_title": "Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-act-2022",
  "path": "section/98",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "98",
  "heading": "Diversionary and community cautions",
  "text": "(1) This Part makes provision for cautions known as—\n(a) diversionary cautions, and\n(b) community cautions.\n(2) A diversionary caution may, in accordance with this Part, be given by an authorised person to a person aged 18 or over in respect of an offence.\n(3) A community caution may, in accordance with this Part, be given by an authorised person to a person aged 18 or over in respect of an offence other than an excluded offence.\n(4) Diversionary and community cautions must have one or more conditions attached to them.\n(5) Breach of a condition may, in accordance with this Part, result in—\n(a) prosecution for the offence, in the case of a diversionary caution, or\n(b) a financial penalty, in the case of a community caution.\n(6) In this Part “excluded offence” means—\n(a) an indictable-only offence;\n(b) an offence triable either way which is prescribed in regulations, or\n(c) a summary offence which is prescribed in regulations.\n(7) In this Part “authorised person”, in relation to a diversionary or community caution, means—\n(a) a constable,\n(b) an investigating officer, or\n(c) a person authorised by a prosecution authority for purposes relating to cautions of that kind.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 98 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 208(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/32/section/98",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:56:35.152975+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."
}