Victorian Numbered Acts

PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS AMENDMENT ACT 2012 (NO. 3 OF 2012) - SECT 1

The main purposes of this Act are—

        (a)     to amend the Public Prosecutions Act 1994 —

              (i)     to confer new functions on the Director of Public Prosecutions as the head of the public prosecutions service; and

              (ii)     to improve the organisational structure of the public prosecutions service; and

              (iii)     to provide for the Director of Public Prosecutions to appoint the Solicitor for Public Prosecutions and Associate Crown Prosecutors; and

              (iv)     to establish a new standing Director's Committee and set out its functions and powers; and

              (v)     to abolish the Committee for Public Prosecutions; and

        (b)     to amend the Public Administration Act 2004 —

              (i)     to provide that the Director's Committee is an exempt body for the purposes of that Act; and

              (ii)     to confer on the Solicitor for Public Prosecutions the functions of a public service body Head in respect of newly appointed Associate Crown Prosecutors; and

              (iii)     to provide for that Act to apply to the Director of Public Prosecutions in relation to the appointment of the Solicitor for Public Prosecutions and Associate Crown Prosecutors.