Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act Contents Part I – Preliminary ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 1 1. Short title .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1 2. Interpretation ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 2 3. Proceedings to which Act applies ...................................................................................................................................................... 4 4. Neither acquittal nor conviction a bar to civil action for damages ....................................................................................... 5 Part II – Prosecution on behalf of State ..................................................................................................................................................... 5 5. Delegation of functions by Prosecutor-General ............................................................................................................................ 5 6. National Director of Public Prosecutions ........................................................................................................................................ 5 7. Change of prosecutor .............................................................................................................................................................................. 5 8. Power to stop public prosecutions .................................................................................................................................................... 5 9. Prosecutions for contempt of court proceedings ......................................................................................................................... 6 10. Power of ordering liberation of persons committed for further examination, sentence or trial ............................... 6 11. Functions of local public prosecutor ............................................................................................................................................. 6 11A. Publication of principles on which decisions to prosecute are based ............................................................................ 7 Part III – Private prosecutions ........................................................................................................................................................................ 7 12. Interpretation in Part III ..................................................................................................................................................................... 7 13. Private prosecution on refusal of Prosecutor-General to prosecute ................................................................................... 7 14. What other persons entitled to prosecute ................................................................................................................................... 8 15. Private prosecutor may apply to court for warrant .................................................................................................................. 8 16. Certificate of Prosecutor-General that he or she declines to prosecute ............................................................................ 8 17. Private prosecutor may be ordered to give security for costs ............................................................................................... 9 18. Failure of private prosecutor to appear on appointed day .................................................................................................... 9 19. Mode of conducting private prosecutions .................................................................................................................................... 9 20. Competency of Prosecutor-General to take up and conduct prosecution at public instance ..................................... 9 21. Deposit of money by private prosecutor ...................................................................................................................................... 9 22. Costs of private prosecution ........................................................................................................................................................... 10 Part IV – Prescription of offences ............................................................................................................................................................... 10 23. Prescription of offences .................................................................................................................................................................... 10 Part V – Arrests ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 10 A. Without warrant ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 10 24. Arrest and verbal order to arrest ........................................................................................................................................... 10 25. Arrest without warrant by peace officer or other officer ............................................................................................... 10 26. Power of peace officer to call for name and address of certain persons ................................................................. 12 27. Arrest by private person for certain offences committed in his presence ............................................................... 12 ii