New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (SENTENCING PROCEDURE) ACT 1999 - SECT 39

39 Director of Public Prosecutions may intervene

(1) The Director of Public Prosecutions may appear in person or be represented by an Australian legal practitioner in guideline proceedings.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the Director of Public Prosecutions or his or her representative may do any one or more of the following--

(a) oppose or support the giving of the guideline judgment by the Court,

(b) make submissions with respect to the framing of the guidelines,

(c) inform the Court of any relevant pending appeal with respect to sentence,

(d) assist the Court with respect to any relevant matter.

(3) Nothing in the Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1986 , the Crown Prosecutors Act 1986 or any other Act or law prevents, or in any way limits, the exercise of any function conferred on the Director of Public Prosecutions, or on any representative of the Director who is a Crown Prosecutor, under this section.

(4) Without limiting subsection (3), in exercising any function conferred on the Director of Public Prosecutions under this section, the Director is not, despite section 4 (3) of the Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1986 , responsible to the Attorney General.