Part 6: Cautions Section 117: Restriction on multiple cautions
Section 117 enables the Secretary of State to make regulations that place restrictions on the multiple use of diversionary and community cautions. Subsection (1) provides for regulations to be made to prohibit the giving of either type of caution where a person has already been cautioned on one or more occasions. Subsection (2)(a) – (d) state that restrictions can be referenced by the kinds of caution the person has already received, the number of times they have received cautions, the time period prior to the offending behaviour for which a caution is being considered or the types of offending behaviour for which the offender has already received a caution.
	Subsection (3)(a)-(c) defines what is meant by ‘cautioned’ as either having received a diversionary or community caution after this Part comes into effect, a conditional caution under Part 3 of the CJA 2003 prior to this Part coming into effect or previously having received any other type of caution prior to this Part coming into effect.