Singapore legislation
Clause 3
of Statutes (Miscellaneous Amendments — Deputy Attorney-General) Bill
Clause 3
Amendment of Criminal Procedure Code
(1)
Section 5 of the Criminal Procedure Code (Cap. 68, 2012 Ed.) is amended by inserting, immediately after the word “Attorney-General”, the words “, a Deputy Attorney-General”.
(2)
Section 11 of the Criminal Procedure Code is amended —
by deleting subsection (2) and substituting the following subsection:“(2) The Deputy Attorney-General assigned by the Attorney-General to have control and direction of criminal prosecutions and proceedings under this Code or any other written law shall have all the powers of the Public Prosecutor, and any reference in this Code or any other written law to the Public Prosecutor shall, unless the context otherwise requires, include a reference to this Deputy Attorney-General.”;
by inserting, immediately after the words “Public Prosecutor may appoint” in subsection (3), the words “the Solicitor-General,”;
by inserting, immediately after the words “The Public Prosecutor,” in subsection (5), the words “the Deputy Attorney-General referred to in subsection (2),”;
by inserting, immediately after the words “the Public Prosecutor,” in subsections (6) and (8), the words “the Deputy Attorney-General referred to in subsection (2),”; and
by inserting, immediately after the words “other than” in subsection (7), the words “the Deputy Attorney-General referred to in subsection (2),”.
(3)
Section 13 of the Criminal Procedure Code is amended by inserting, immediately after the words “other than the Public Prosecutor,”, the words “the Deputy Attorney-General referred to in section 11(2),”.