New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACT 1986 - SECT 126

126 Signing 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.