Back to Criminal Procedure Code 2010

Section history

Section 13 — Public Prosecutor’s power to take over conduct of prosecution, etc.

Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.

Amendments
13.Public Prosecutor’s power to take over conduct of prosecution, etc.

Where a prosecution is conducted by a person other than the Public Prosecutor, the Deputy Attorney-General referred tomentioned in section 11(2), the Solicitor-General,Solicitor‑General, a Deputy Public Prosecutor or an Assistant Public Prosecutor, the Public Prosecutor may, if he or she thinks fit, take over the conduct of the prosecution at any stage of the proceedings and continue or discontinue the prosecution.