3 Functions of the Director
Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 (1985 c 23) | Legislation

3  Functions of the Director

(1)     The Director shall discharge his functions under this or any other enactment under the superintendence of the Attorney General.

(2)     It shall be the duty of the Director[, subject to any provisions contained in the Criminal Justice Act 1987]—

(a)     to take over the conduct of all criminal proceedings, other than specified proceedings, instituted on behalf of a police force (whether by a member of that force or by any other person);

[(aa)     to take over the conduct of any criminal proceedings instituted by an immigration officer (as defined for the purposes of the Immigration Act 1971) acting in his capacity as such an officer;]

[(ab)     to take over the conduct of any criminal proceedings instituted in England and Wales by the Revenue and Customs;]

[(ac)     to take over the conduct of any criminal proceedings instituted on behalf of the National Crime Agency;]

[(ad)     to take over the conduct of any criminal proceedings instituted in England and Wales by the ICRIR;]

(b)     to institute and have the conduct of criminal proceedings in any case where it appears to him that—

(i)     the importance or difficulty of the case makes it appropriate that proceedings should

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