Amendment of the 2002 Regulations

2.  For regulation 9 (central records: prescribed details) of the Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) Regulations 2002(1) substitute—

Central records: prescribed details

9.  Information in any form relating to convictions, cautions, reprimands and warnings(2) on a names database held by the National Policing Improvement Agency for the use of constables is prescribed as “central records” for the purposes of section 113A(6) of the Police Act 1997 (including that provision as applied by sections 114(3)(3) and 116(3)(4))..

(2)

Under section 65 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (c.37) references to cautions in earlier Acts should be construed as including references to young persons or children receiving reprimands or warnings.

(3)

Section 114(3) of the Police Act 1997 has been amended by Schedule 14 to the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 and by section 63(1) of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (c.47), though this amendment is not yet in force.

(4)

Section 116(3) of the Police Act 1997 has been amended by Schedule 14 to the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 and by section 63(1) of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006, though this amendment is not yet in force.