New South Wales Consolidated Acts

AGRICULTURAL AND VETERINARY CHEMICALS (NEW SOUTH WALES) ACT 1994 - SECT 35

35 Conferral of functions on Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions

The Director of Public Prosecutions of the Commonwealth ( "the Director") may:

(a) institute prosecutions on indictment for indictable offences against the Agvet Code, or the Agvet Regulations, of this jurisdiction, and

(b) carry on prosecutions of the kind referred to in paragraph (a) (except prosecutions instituted by the Attorney-General or the Director of Public Prosecutions of the State), whether or not instituted by the Director, and

(c) if the Attorney-General or the Director of Public Prosecutions of the State requests the Director in writing to carry on a prosecution of the kind referred to in paragraph (a) that was instituted by the Attorney-General or the Director of Public Prosecutions of the State-carry on the prosecution, and

(d) institute proceedings for the commitment of persons for trial in respect of indictable offences against the Agvet Code, or the Agvet Regulations, of this jurisdiction, and

(e) institute proceedings for the summary conviction of persons in respect of offences against the Agvet Code, or the Agvet Regulations, of this jurisdiction, and

(f) carry on proceedings of a kind referred to in paragraph (d) or (e) (whether or not instituted by the Director), and

(g) do anything incidental or conducive to the performance of any of the functions referred to in paragraphs (a) to (f).