Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Director of Public Prosecutions (Consequential Amendments) Act 1983 No. 114 of 1983 - SECT 33

33. Section 8 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-section (3) and
substituting the following sub-section:

''(3) Nothing in this Act affects, or shall be taken to have affected-

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

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

   (c)  the power of the Director of Public Prosecutions-

        (i)    to prosecute by indictment in his official name indictable
               offences against the laws of the Commonwealth; or

        (ii)   to prosecute by information in his official name an indictable
               offence triable before the Supreme Court of the Australian
               Capital Territory;

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

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

   (f)  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

   (g)  the power of the Director of Public Prosecutions under sub-section 9
        (4) of the Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1983.