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PROSECUTION OF OFFENCES ACT 1985

01 January 1991

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PROSECUTION OF OFFENCES ACT 1985
refdoc July=1991

JOURNAL ARTICLE , User Ref = 007673
A N Khan
Police J, Jan/Mar 1985 59(1) pp25-32

The major provisions of the Act are explained covering the
establishment of the Crown Prosecution Service ; the duties of
the Director of Public Prosecutions , and Crown Prosecutors; the
transfer of the prosecuting solicitors departments of the
police force to the Crown Prosecution Service ; costs in criminal
cases; time limits in preliminary proceedings, and restrictions
on vexatious prosecutions.

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