PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS ACT 1994
PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS ACT 1994
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
PART 1--PRELIMINARY
1. Purposes
2. Commencement
3. Definitions
PART 2--DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS
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
19B. Chief Crown Prosecutor may act as Director
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. Functions of Director in relation to public prosecutions service
24. Matters to which Director must have regard
25. Power to discontinue criminal proceedings
25A. Guidelines—briefing legal practitioners other than Crown Prosecutors and Associate Crown Prosecutors
26. Guidelines—prosecutions of offences
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
35A. Senior Crown Prosecutor may act as Chief Crown Prosecutor
36. Functions of Crown Prosecutors
PART 6--ASSOCIATE CROWN PROSECUTORS
37. Appointment
38. Functions of Associate Crown Prosecutors
PART 7--OFFICE OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS
Division 1--Office of Public Prosecutions
39. Office of Public Prosecutions
40. Employment of staff
41. Functions of Office
Division 2--Solicitor for Public Prosecutions
42. Appointment
43. Functions of Solicitor for Public Prosecutions
44. Delegation
PART 8--THE DIRECTOR'S COMMITTEE
Division 1--Establishment and functions of Director's Committee
45. Director's Committee
45A. Functions of Director's Committee
45B. Guidelines—regarding special decisions
Division 2--Special decisions
45C. Meeting to be held for special decisions
45D. Constitution of Director's Committee for meeting on special decision
45E. When meeting not required
45F. Report to Attorney-General if advice not followed
45G. Report to be tabled in Parliament
45H. Delegation of functions in relation to special decisions
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. Transitional provisions (2012 amendment)
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