Victorian Consolidated Legislation

PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS ACT 1994

No. 43 of 1994
Version incorporating amendments as at 11 December 2008

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Section Page

   PART 1-PRELIMINARY

   1.      Purposes
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Definitions

   PART 2-DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS

           4-8. Repealed
   9.      Acting Director
   10.     Director is responsible to Attorney-General
   11.     Appearance by Director
   12.     Annual report

   PART 3-CHIEF CROWN PROSECUTOR

   13.     Appointment
   14.     Role of Chief Crown Prosecutor
   15.     Terms and conditions
   15A.    Salary sacrifice-Chief Crown Prosecutor
   16.     Resignation
   17.     Suspension and removal from office
   18.     Pension of Chief Crown Prosecutor and of his or her partner
           and children
   19.     Acting Chief Crown Prosecutor
   19A.    Salary sacrifice-Acting Chief Crown Prosecutor
   20.     Chief Crown Prosecutor is responsible to Director
   21.     Exercise of powers in cases of conflict of interest etc.

   PART 4-FUNCTIONS AND POWERS OF DIRECTOR

   22.     Functions of Director
   23.     Director's Committee
   24.     Matters to which Director must have regard
   25.     Power to discontinue criminal proceedings
   26.     Guidelines
   27.     Director to be provided with certain information
   28.     Director may request police assistance
   29.     Director may make request to Attorney-General
   30.     Delegation

   PART 5-CROWN PROSECUTORS

   31.     Appointment
   32.     Terms and conditions
   32A.    Salary sacrifice-Crown Prosecutors
   33.     Resignation
   34.     Removal from office
   35.     Pensions of Senior Crown Prosecutors and of their partners
           and children
   36.     Functions of Crown Prosecutors

   PART 5A-ASSOCIATE CROWN PROSECUTORS

   36A.    Appointment
   36B.    Terms and conditions
   36BA.   Salary sacrifice
   36C.    Resignation
   36D.    Removal from office
   36E.    Functions of Associate Crown Prosecutors

   PART 6-SOLICITOR FOR PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS

   37.     Appointment
   38.     Functions of Solicitor for Public Prosecutions
   39.     Delegation

   PART 7-OFFICE OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS

   40.     Office of Public Prosecutions
   41.     Functions of Office

   PART 8-COMMITTEE FOR PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS

   42.     Committee for Public Prosecutions
   43.     Functions of Committee
   44.     Meetings of Committee
   45.     Annual report

   PART 9-MISCELLANEOUS

   46.     Immunity
   47.     Outcome of trial cannot be challenged etc. on ground relating
           to special decision
   48.     Judicial notice
   48A.    Consolidated annual report
   49.     Supreme Court-limitation of jurisdiction
   50.     Regulations
   51.     Transitional provisions
   51A.    Transitional provisions (1998 amendments)
   52.     Transitional provisions (1999 amendments)
   53.     Transitional provision (2004 amendment)
   54.     Transitional provision (2006 amendment)
   55.     Validation provision
   56.     Repealed
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           SCHEDULE-Repealed
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           ENDNOTES
           1. General Information
           2. Table of Amendments
           3. Explanatory Details