Legislation to note: Criminal Procedure Amendment (Public Officers) Regulation 2008

09/03/2008

The Criminal Procedure Amendment (Public Officers) Regulation 2008(NSW)has been gazetted.The object of this Regulation, as provided by the explanatory note, is to amend the Criminal Procedure Regulation 2005 to declare the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions of the Commonwealth to be a body whose officers and employees are public officers for the purposes of the Criminal Procedure Act 1986.

The effect of this is to enable officers and employees of that Office to commence and conduct prosecutions in NSW courts as public, rather than private, prosecutors, with the powers and certain of the protections conferred on public prosecutors. View the regulation>

10 March 2008