Section 139(3) of the Evidence Act 1995 is purposive: 'reasonable fluency' means fluency sufficient to enable the arrested person to understand the concepts underlying the caution — the right to silence and that anything said may be used in evidence — rather than requiring a general standard of language proficiency. The test is whether the concepts were sufficiently communicated so as to be understood.
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