Criminal Procedure Further Amendment (Public Officers) Regulation 2008 (NSW)

2008 No 593

New South Wales

Criminal Procedure Further

Amendment (Public Officers)

Regulation 2008

under the

Criminal Procedure Act 1986

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Criminal Procedure Act 1986.

JOHN HATZISTERGOS, M.L.C.,

Attorney General

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to amend the Criminal Procedure Regulation 2005 to declare the Police Integrity Commission 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 Commission 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.

This Regulation is made under the Criminal Procedure Act 1986, including the definition of public officer in section 3 (1) and section 4 (the general regulation-making power).

Published in Gazette No 158 of 19 December 2008, page 12319	Page 1
2008 No 593
Clause 1	Criminal Procedure Further Amendment (Public Officers) Regulation 2008

Criminal Procedure Further Amendment (Public

Officers) Regulation 2008

under the

Criminal Procedure Act 1986

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Criminal Procedure Further Amendment (Public
Officers) Regulation 2008.

2 Amendment of Criminal Procedure Regulation 2005

The Criminal Procedure Regulation 2005 is amended by inserting the following after clause 20 (q):

(r) the Police Integrity Commission.

BY AUTHORITY