Victorian Current Acts

PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS ACT 1994 - SECT 45D

    (1)     For the purposes of a meeting referred to in section 45C, the Director's Committee is to be constituted by—

        (a)     the Director, who is to be the chairperson; and

        (b)     the Chief Crown Prosecutor; and

        (c)     in the case of a special decision of a kind referred to in paragraph (d) or (e) of the definition of that term in section 3—

              (i)     the Crown Prosecutor, Associate Crown Prosecutor or other Australian lawyer concerned; or

              (ii)     if both a Crown Prosecutor and an Associate Crown Prosecutor are concerned, the Crown Prosecutor concerned; or

              (iii)     if more than one Crown Prosecutor is concerned, the most senior Crown Prosecutor concerned; or

              (iv)     if more than one Australian lawyer (other than a Crown Prosecutor or an Associate Crown Prosecutor) is concerned, the most senior counsel concerned; or

              (v)     if one or more than one Crown Prosecutor and one or more than one Associate Crown Prosecutor or other Australian lawyer are concerned, the most senior Crown Prosecutor concerned; or

              (vi)     if the Crown Prosecutor, Associate Crown Prosecutor or other Australian lawyer concerned is not available, the most senior Crown Prosecutor available; and

        (d)     in any other case, the most senior Crown Prosecutor available.

Note

The Solicitor for Public Prosecutions is not a member of the Director's Committee for the purposes of a meeting on a special decision.

    (2)     Subject to this Division, the Director's Committee may regulate its own meeting procedure under this Division.

S. 45E inserted by No. 3/2012 s. 21.