Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS ACT 1983 - SECT 32

  (1)   The Director may arrange with the Australian Government Solicitor (the AGS ) for the AGS to perform or exercise, in a State or Territory, all or any of the Director's functions or powers under this Act:

  (a)   in the name of the Director; and

  (b)   subject to such conditions and restrictions as are specified in the arrangement.

If such an arrangement is made, the AGS may perform or exercise those functions or powers accordingly.

  (2)   The Director shall, as soon as practicable after an arrangement has been made under subsection   ( 1), cause an instrument in writing setting out the terms of the arrangement to be published in the Gazette , but failure of the Director to do so does not affect the validity of the arrangement.

  (3)   Where the AGS, in the performance or purported performance of a function of the Director, or in the exercise or purported exercise of a power of the Director, does an act in the name of the Director:

  (a)   the act shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to have been done by the Director; and

  (b)   the act shall not be challenged or called in question in any court on the ground that the function or power, as the case may be, was not the subject of an arrangement under subsection   ( 1) or was performed or exercised otherwise than in accordance with such an arrangement.