Youth Justice Act 1992

This section applies if, under section 50, a police officer decides to release a child without bail.

The officer may release the child into the custody of the child’s parents or release the child to go at large.

Before releasing the child, if the officer does not issue and give to the child a notice to appear, the officer must give the child a notice in the approved form (a release notice).

The release notice must set out—

the child’s name; and

the offence or the nature of the warrant on which the child was held in custody; and

the name of the police officer who started the proceeding, or justice who issued the warrant, on which the child was held in custody; and

the court into whose custody the child is required to surrender under the conditions of release; and

the time and place the child is required to surrender into the court’s custody; and

a warning that a warrant will be issued for the child’s arrest if the child fails to surrender into the court’s custody.