15Signing of
indictments
(1)
An indictment shall be signed:
(a)
by the Attorney General, the Solicitor General or
the Director of Public Prosecutions, or
(b)
for and on behalf of the Attorney General or the
Director of Public Prosecutions by:
(i)
a Crown Prosecutor,
(ii)
a Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions,
or
(iii)
a person authorised under subsection (2) to sign
indictments.
(2)
The Director of Public Prosecutions may, by order
in writing, authorise a person to sign indictments for and on behalf of the
Director.
(3)
It shall be presumed, in the absence of evidence
to the contrary, that an indictment signed by a person for and on behalf of
the Attorney General or the Director of Public Prosecutions was signed by a
person authorised to do so.
(4)
A certificate signed by the Director of Public
Prosecutions to the effect that a specified person was authorised during a
specified period to sign indictments for and on behalf of the Director is
admissible in evidence in any legal proceedings and is evidence of the matters
certified.
s 15: Am 1987 No 209,
Sch 7.