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12. The Attorney General is hereby entrusted with the Prosecution duty and discretion of conducting the prosecution of all to be under offences cognizable by a magistrate: Provide that it shall Attorney be lawful for any member of the police force and such. other public servant as the Attorney General may from time, 24 of 1949, s.8. to time by any general or special direction authorize to lay before a magistrate an information in respect of an offence and that any such information shall be deemed to have been laid on behalf of the Attorney General and pro- vided that in any such case he shall be deemed to be a party to the proceedings and such member or public servant shall not be so deemed.

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13. The Attorney General may appoint any public Appointment officer or class of public officers to act as public prosecutor prosecutors

or prosecutors and to conduct generally on his behalf

of public

by Attorney

any General. prosecution before a magistrate or any specified classes of 24 of 1949, s.8. prosecutions or any particular case. Any public 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.

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prosecution

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General.

and inter- the Attorney

24 of 1949, 8.8.

14. (1) A complainant or informant who is not acting Private or deemed to act on behalf of the Attorney General may if he so wishes and without any prior leave conduct in person or by counsel on his behalf the prosecution of the offence to which the complaint or information relates but the Attorney General may at any stage of the proceedings before the magistrate intervene and assume the conduct of the proceedings and may within the time limited by section 102 for applying for a review intervene for the purpose of applying for or being made a party to any review.

(2) As from the date of any such intervention the Attorney General shall be deemed to be a party to the proceedings or the review in lieu of such complainant or informant.

(3) Such intervention may be effected by oral intimation given to the magistrate by a public prosecutor acting under the instructions of the Attorney General or by notice in writing under the hand of the Attorney General of his intervention lodged with the magistrates' clerk. In the event of oral intimation as aforesaid having been given the

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