DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS ACT 1991 - SECT 35

DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS ACT 1991 - SECT 35

35 .         Savings and transitional

        (1)         The application of this Act to offences, prosecutions, appeals, references and proceedings extends to offences committed and prosecutions, appeals, references and proceedings brought or commenced before the commencement of this Act.

        (2)         On the commencement of this Act where the Attorney General is performing a function of a kind that is vested in the Director by Part 3, the Director may continue the performance of that function in place of the Attorney General and if in any case the Director does so —

            (a)         all acts, matters and things made or done by or on behalf of or in the name of the Attorney General in relation to any such function in that case shall be taken to have been made or done also by or on behalf of or in the name of the Director; and

            (b)         a reference to the Attorney General or to a person acting on his behalf in any order or document arising from or relating to any such function is, unless inconsistent with the context or subject-matter, deemed to include a reference to the Director; and

            (c)         all documents served on or by or on behalf of or in the name of the Attorney General in connection with any such function shall be taken to have been served also on or by or on behalf of or in the name of the Director.

        (3)         A reference in a written law to the Crown Prosecutor is, unless inconsistent with the context or subject-matter, deemed to be a reference to the Director and the Deputy Director.

[ 36.         Omitted under the Reprints Act 1984 s. 7(4)(e).]