Schedule 8: Costs in criminal cases: service courts Schedule 17: Restatement of transitional provision Youth cautions Section 136: Youth conditional cautions: previous convictions
750.Section 136 omits paragraph (a) from section 66A(1) of the 1998 Act. That paragraph prevents a youth conditional caution from being given to a young person who has previously been convicted of an offence. This will allow a youth conditional caution to be given to a young person when they have admitted to committing an offence for which such a disposal is appropriate, even if they have been convicted of other more serious offences in the past.