Hong Kong Ordinances

MAGISTRATES ORDINANCE - SECT 13

Appointment of official prosecutors by Secretary for Justice*

(Past version on 01/07/1997).
(Past version on 30/06/1997).

The Secretary for Justice may appoint any public officer or class of public
officers to act as official prosecutor or prosecutors and to conduct generally
on his behalf any prosecution before a magistrate or any specified classes of
prosecutions or any particular case. Any official prosecutor so appointed may
without any written authority appear and plead before a magistrate any case of
which he has charge which is being inquired into, tried or reviewed. (Added 24
of 1949 s. 8. Amended L.N. 362 of 1997; 25 of 2008 s. 3)
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* (Amended 25 of 2008 s. 3)