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DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS ACT 1983 - SECT 10

Powers and functions of Director do not affect those of certain other persons

  (1)   Nothing in this Act affects:

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

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

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

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

  (e)   the power under subsection   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

  (f)   the power of a Special Prosecutor under subsection   8(2) of the Special Prosecutors Act 1982 .

  (2)   Nothing in this Act (other than subsection   9(5)) affects the right of a person to institute or carry on proceedings for:

  (a)   the commitment of persons for trial in respect of indictable offences against the laws of the Commonwealth; or

  (b)   the summary conviction of persons in respect of offences against the laws of the Commonwealth.

  (3)   Nothing in this Act affects the right of a person:

  (a)   to institute or carry on proceedings for the recovery of pecuniary penalties under the laws of the Commonwealth; or

  (b)   to take civil remedies on behalf of the Commonwealth or of authorities of the Commonwealth.


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