Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Director of Public Prosecutions (Consequential Amendments) Act 1983 No. 114 of 1983 - SECT 4

4. Section 53 of the Principal Act is amended-

   (a)  by inserting after sub-section (3) the following sub-section:

''(3A) Nothing in sub-section (1)-

   (a)  affects the power of the Director of Public Prosecutions to prosecute
        by information in his official name; or

   (b)  affects, or shall be taken to have affected, the power of a Special
        Prosecutor to prosecute by information in his own name,

an indictable offence triable before the Supreme Court.''; and

   (b)  by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:

''(7) Nothing in sub-section (6)-

   (a)  affects the power under sub-section 9 (4) of the Director of  Public
        Prosecutions Act 1983 of the Director of Public Prosecutions; or

   (b)  affects, or shall be taken to have affected, the power under
        sub-section 8 (2) of the Special Prosecutors Act 1982 of a Special
        Prosecutor.''.