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DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS ACT 1990 - SECT 10

Appeals

    (1)     The director may, in respect of a prosecution or proceedings conducted by the director, exercise such rights of appeal (if any)—

        (a)     as are exercisable by the Attorney-General; or

        (b)     in the case of a prosecution or proceedings the conduct of which the director has taken over from a person other than the Attorney-General—as would have been exercisable by that person if the director had not taken over the conduct of the prosecution or proceedings.

    (2)     The rights of appeal conferred on the director under subsection (1) are in additional to such rights of appeal (if any) as are exercisable by the director otherwise than under that subsection.

    (3)     In this section:

"right of appeal" includes—

        (a)     a right to apply for a review or rehearing; and

        (b)     a right to institute proceedings in the nature of an appeal or of an application for a review or rehearing; and

        (c)     a right to appeal against sentence.



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