Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1983 No. 113 of 1983 - SECT 32

32. (1) The Director may make an arrangement with the Crown Solicitor for the
Crown Solicitor or a Deputy Crown Solicitor to perform or exercise in a State
or Territory, in the name of the Director and subject to such conditions and
restrictions as are specified in the arrangement, all or any of the Director's
functions or powers under this Act, and where such an arrangement is made-

   (a)  the Crown Solicitor or that Deputy Crown Solicitor, as the case may
        be, may perform those functions or exercise those powers accordingly;
        and

   (b)  sections 15 and 16 apply, for the purposes of the performance or
        exercise of those functions or powers by the Crown Solicitor or by
        that Deputy Crown Solicitor, as if-

        (i)    a reference in those sections to the Director were a reference
               to the Crown Solicitor, or to that Deputy Crown Solicitor, as
               the case may be; and

        (ii)   a reference in those sections to a member of the staff of the
               Office were a reference to an officer of the Attorney-General's
               Department who is authorized in writing by the Crown Solicitor,
               or by that Deputy Crown Solicitor, as the case may be, to act
               on behalf of the Crown Solicitor, or of that Deputy Crown
               Solicitor, in the performance or exercise of those functions or
               powers.

(2) The Director shall, as soon as practicable after an arrangement has been
made under sub-section (1), cause an instrument in writing setting out the
terms of the arrangement to be published in the Gazette, but failure of the
Director to do so does not affect the validity of the arrangement.

(3) Where the Crown Solicitor or a Deputy Crown Solicitor, in the performance
or purported performance of a function of the Director, or in the exercise or
purported exercise of a power of the Director, does an act in the name of the
Director-

   (a)  the act shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to have been
        done by the Director; and

   (b)  the act shall not be challenged or called in question in any court on
        the ground that the function or power, as the case may be, was not the
        subject of an arrangement under sub-section (1) or was performed or
        exercised otherwise than in accordance with such an arrangement.