Criminal Procedure Code · s 374

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s 374Public Prosecutor and Deputies

(1)

The Attorney General shall be the Public Prosecutor and shall have the general direction and control of criminal prosecutions and proceedings under this Code or under any other written law.

(2)

His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan may appoint fit and proper persons to be Deputy Public Prosecutors who shall be under the general control and direction of the Public Prosecutor and may exercise any or all of the powers under this Code as may be delegated to him by the Public

Prosecutor.

(3)

The Public Prosecutor may, by notification published in the

Gazette, delegate all or any of the powers vested in him by this Code to any

Deputy Public Prosecutor and the exercise of these powers by such Deputy

Public Prosecutor shall then operate as if they had been exercised by the

Public Prosecutor, provided that the Public Prosecutor may in like manner revoke any delegation made by him under this section.