Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1983 No. 113 of 1983 - SECT 10

10. (1) Nothing in this Act affects-

   (a)  the power of the Attorney-General, of a person appointed by the
        Governor-General or of a Special Prosecutor to prosecute by indictment
        in his own name indictable offences against the laws of the
        Commonwealth;

   (b)  the power of the Attorney-General, of a person appointed by the
        Attorney-General or of a Special Prosecutor to prosecute by
        information in his own name an indictable offence triable before the
        Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory;

   (c)  the power under section 61 of the Judiciary Act 1903 of the
        Attorney-General or of a person appointed by the Attorney-General;

   (d)  the power under section 71 of the Judiciary Act 1903 of the
        Attorney-General or of a person appointed by the Governor-General;

   (e)  the power under sub-section 53 (6) of the Australian Capital 
        Territory Supreme Court Act 1933 of the Attorney-General or of a
        person appointed by the Attorney-General; or

   (f)  the power of a Special Prosecutor under sub-section 8 (2) of the
        Special Prosecutors Act 1982.

(2) Nothing in this Act (other than sub-section 9 (5)) affects the right of a
person to institute or carry on proceedings for-

   (a)  the commitment of persons for trial in respect of indictable offences
        against the laws of the Commonwealth; or

   (b)  the summary conviction of persons in respect of offences against the
        laws of the Commonwealth.

(3) Nothing in this Act affects the right of a person-

   (a)  to institute or carry on proceedings for the recovery of pecuniary
        penalties under the laws of the Commonwealth; or

   (b)  to take civil remedies on behalf of the Commonwealth or of authorities
        of the Commonwealth.