CHAPTER 9:07
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND EVIDENCE ACT
Order-in-Council, 1898 (ss. 55 and 56); Ords. 4/1899, 10/1908, 13/1912; Acts 8/1924, 19/1926, 4/1927,
18/1927, 5/1932, 7/1933, 1/1934, 19/1936 (ss. 3, 4, 5 and 6), 37/1938 (ss. 24 and 25), 19/1942 (ss. 3 and 4),
22/1942 (s. 12), 25/1948 (s. 24), 52/1949, 27/1950, 14/1952, 56/1953 (s. 4), 6/1955, 9/1955 (Federal s. 126),
17/1957 (Federal s. 25), 4/1958 (s. 10), 24/1958, 72/1959, 10/1960, 53/1960 (ss. 55, 56 and 57), 24/1962 (s. 2),
32/1962, 43/1962 (s. 2), 18/1963 (s. 24), 21/1963, 12/1964 (ss. 14, 15 and 16), 22/1964 (s. 54), 69/1964,
18/1965, 44/1966 (s. 20), 58/1966, 11/1968 (s. 17), 12/1969, 22/1972 (s. 91), 24/1972 (ss. 3, 4 and 5),
11/1973 (s. 14), 32/1973, 42/1973 (s. 13), 61/1973 (s. 2), 37/1975, 48/1976 (s. 82), 50/1976, 38/1977 (s. 7),
31/1978, 41/1978 (s. 5), 17/1979 (s. 8), 15/1981 (s. 66), 29/1981 (s. 59), 15/1982 (s. 3), 3/1983, 31/1983 (s. 7),
15/1985. (s. 13), 25/1985 (s. 13), 32/1985, 17/1986, 24/1989, 4/1990, 27/1990, 1/1992, 2/1992, 22/1992 (s. 3),
15/1994, 20/1994, 8/1997, 9/1997 (s. 10), 8/1998, 25/1998 (s. 52), 9/1999 (s. 82), 14/1999 (s. 29), 6/2000
(s. 151), 8/2001 (s. 26), 22/2001 (s. 4), 23/2001 (s. 49), 1/2002 (s. 44), 14/2002 (s. 14), 14/2004,
23/2004 (s. 282); 6/2005 (s. 7), 9/2006; R.G.N.s 153/1963, 801/1963, 91/1964, 214/1964, 295/1964, 386/1964,
217/1970 as read with Act 29/1970 (s. 16), 313/1970, 1092/1970, 1116/1970, 416/1972, 327/1977 (s. 3);
S.I.s 589/1979 (s. 3).
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
PART I
P RELIMINARY
Section
1.
2.
3.
4.
Short title.
Interpretation.
Proceedings to which Act applies.
Neither acquittal nor conviction a bar to civil action for damages.
PART II
P ROSECUTION AT P UBLIC INSTANCE
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
9A.
10.
A. Attorney-General
Criminal proceedings in name of State.
Delegation of functions of Attorney-General.
Director of Public Prosecutions.
Presiding officer may appoint prosecutor in certain cases.
Attorney-General’s power of stopping prosecutions.
Prosecutions for contempt of court proceedings.
Power of ordering liberation of persons committed for further examination, sentence or trial.
11.
Functions of local public prosecutor.
B. Local public prosecutor
PART III
P RIVATE P ROSECUTIONS
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
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20.
21.
22.
Interpretation in Part III.
Private prosecution on refusal of Attorney-General to prosecute.
What other persons entitled to prosecute.
Private prosecutor may apply to court for warrant.
Certificate of Attorney-General that he declines to prosecute.
Recognizances to be entered into by private prosecutor.
Failure of private prosecutor to appear on appointed day.
Mode of conducting private prosecutions.
Competency of Attorney-General to take up and conduct prosecution at public instance.
Deposit of money by private prosecutor.
Costs of private prosecution.
PART IV
P RESCRIPTION O F OFFENCES
23.
Prescription of offences.