Extradition (Amendment) Act, 1987
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Performance of certain functions of Attorney General. |
5.—(1) The Attorney General may direct the Director of Public Prosecutions or an officer (being either a barrister or a solicitor) of the Attorney General designated by him to perform his functions under sections 44A and 44B (inserted by this Act) of the Principal Act during a period of illness or absence of the Attorney General. | |
(2) The Attorney General may, without prejudice to anything previously done thereunder, revoke a direction under this section at any time. | ||
(3) Subsection (1) of section 4 of the Prosecution of Offences Act, 1974 , shall not apply to the functions of the Attorney General under the said sections 44A and 44B but the reference in subsection (3) of the said section 4 to subsection (1) of that section shall include a reference to subsection (1) of this section. | ||
(4) References to the Attorney General in the Principal Act shall be construed in accordance with any direction for the time being in force under this section. |