CROWN PROCEEDINGS ACT 1992 - SECT 17

CROWN PROCEEDINGS ACT 1992 - SECT 17

17—Cases where right of Crown to legal representation is restricted

        (1)         Where an Act removes or restricts the right of a party to be represented in proceedings by a legal practitioner, the State Crown or the Attorney-General, if a party to the proceedings, may be represented by an officer or servant of the Crown (not being a legal practitioner, an articled law clerk or a person who holds legal qualifications under the law of this State or of any other place) authorised to conduct the proceedings on behalf of the Crown or the Attorney-General.

        (2)         In any such proceedings, a document apparently signed by a Minister of the State Crown or the Chief Executive Officer of an agency, instrumentality, department or administrative unit of the State Crown that appears to be an authorisation of the kind contemplated by subsection (1) will, in the absence of proof to the contrary, be accepted as such an authorisation.