Director of Public Prosecutions Amendment Regulations 1998 (No. 1) (Cth)

Director of Public Prosecutions Amendment Regulations 1998 (No. 1)

Statutory Rules 1998No. 356

I, WILLIAM PATRICK DEANE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations under theDirector of Public Prosecutions Act 1983.

Dated 17 December 1998.

WILLIAM DEANE

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Daryl williams

Attorney-General

Director of Public Prosecutions Amendment Regulations 1998 (No. 1)1

Statutory Rules 1998No. 3562

made under the

Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1983

   

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1Name of regulations

 These regulations are the Director of Public Prosecutions Amendment Regulations 1998 (No. 1).

2Commencement

 These regulations commence on gazettal.

3Amendment of Director of Public Prosecutions Regulations

 Schedule 1 amends the Director of Public Prosecutions Regulations.

Schedule 1Amendment of Director of Public Prosecutions Regulations

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[1]Regulations 1 and 2

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1Name of regulations

 These regulations are the Director of Public Prosecutions Regulations 1984. 

2Definitions

 In these regulations:

Act means the Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1983. 

State or Territory authority means an agency of a State or Territory government that:

• (a)

  conducts investigations into offences against State or Territory laws; or

• (b)

  is responsible for the conduct of prosecutions for breaches of those laws. 

[2]Regulation 3

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• (1)

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[3]Paragraph 3 (e)

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 New South Wales.

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 New South Wales; and

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• (f)

  to give, to an authority of the Commonwealth, legal advice on law enforcement or a matter relating to law enforcement, whether or not the advice is for the purposes of a particular investigation; and

• (g)

  to give, to a State or Territory authority, legal advice on the investigation or prosecution of an offence against a law of the Commonwealth or a matter relating to the investigation or prosecution of such an offence, whether or not the advice is for the purposes of a particular investigation. 

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  Nothing in paragraph 3 (1) (f) affects the power of the Director (or a person entitled to represent the Director) under subsection 9 (11) of the Act. 

Notes

1. These regulations amend Statutory Rules 1984 No. 249, as amended by 1990 Nos. 155 and 253; 1992 No. 371; 1996 No. 287; 1997 No. 75.

2. Made by the Governor-General on 17 December 1998, and notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette