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Crown Prosecution Service Annual Report and Resource Accounts 2005 - 2006

Annex B: Guidance Issued by the Director

During the period of this report the Director of Public Prosecutions has issued guidance under Section 37A(1) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1985 as amended by the Criminal Justice Act 2003, as follows;

  • The Director's Guidance on Charging (Second Edition) plus a third version, which added the new Terrorism Act to Annex A second edition.
  • Explanatory Guidance on the use of the Threshold Test was issued on 12 September 2005.
  • The Director's Guidance on Conditional Cautioning, bringing Conditional Cautioning into operation in the early implementation sites was amended and reissued on 28 March 2006.

All S37A Guidance is available on the CPS website.