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Criminal Procedure Code · 2021 Revised Edition · Chapter XL
Criminal Procedure Code · 2021 Revised Edition · Chapter XL
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
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.
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.
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.
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