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Official Secrets Act · 2010 Revised Edition
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
A prosecution for an offence against this Act shall not be instituted except by or with the consent of the Public Prosecutor:
Provided that a person charged with such an offence may be arrested, or a warrant for his arrest may be issued and executed, and any such person may be remanded in custody or on bail, notwithstanding that the consent of the
Public Prosecutor to the institution of a prosecution for the offence has not been obtained, but the case shall not be further prosecuted until that consent has been obtained.
When a person is brought before a court under this section before the Public Prosecutor has consented to the prosecution, the charge shall be explained to him but he shall not be called upon to plead, and thereafter he shall be remanded in custody pending the consent of the Public Prosecutor to the prosecution.