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DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS ACT 1983 - SECT 15 Appearances by and on behalf of Director

DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS ACT 1983 - SECT 15

Appearances by and on behalf of Director

  (1)   In:

  (a)   proceedings:

  (i)   instituted, taken over or carried on by the Director;

  (ii)   to which the Director is, or is seeking to become, a party;

  (iii)   in which the Director intervenes or seeks to intervene; or

  (iv)   of a kind referred to in paragraph   6(1)(k);

  (b)   an inquest or inquiry conducted under a law of the Commonwealth, being an inquest or inquiry in which the Director is assisting the coroner; or

  (c)   proceedings by way of appeal from, or otherwise arising out of, proceedings of a kind referred to in paragraph   ( a) or an inquest or inquiry of the kind referred to in paragraph   ( b);

the Director may appear in person or may be represented:

  (d)   by a member of the staff of the Office who is a legal practitioner;

  (da)   by a member of the staff of a State or Territory authority who is a legal practitioner;

  (e)   by counsel or solicitor; or

  (f)   by the Australian Government Solicitor.

  (3)   In this section:

"State or Territory authority" means the agency of a State or Territory Government that is responsible for commencing and carrying on prosecutions on indictment for breaches of State or Territory law.