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(1)A Serious Fraud Office shall be constituted for England and Wales and Northern Ireland.
(2)The Attorney General shall appoint a person to be the Director of the Serious Fraud Office (referred to in this Part of this Act as “the Director”), and he shall discharge his functions under the superintendence of the Attorney General.
(3)The Director may investigate any suspected offence which appears to him on reasonable grounds to involve serious or complex fraud.
(4)The Director may, if he thinks fit, conduct any such investigation in conjunction either with the police or with any other person who is, in the opinion of the Director, a proper person to be concerned in it.
(5)The Director may—
(a)institute and have the conduct of any criminal proceedings which appear to him to relate to such fraud; and
(b)take over the conduct of any such proceedings at any stage.
(6)The Director shall discharge such other functions in relation to fraud as may from time to time be assigned to him by the Attorney General.
(7)The Director may designate for the purposes of subsection (5) above any member of the Serious Fraud Office who is—
(a)a barrister in England and Wales or Northern Ireland;
(b)a solicitor of the Supreme Court; or
(c)a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature of Northern Ireland.
(8)Any member so designated shall, without prejudice to any functions which may have been assigned to him in his capacity as a member of that Office, have all the powers of the Director as to the institution and conduct of proceedings but shall exercise those powers under the direction of the Director.
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(12)Any member so designated who is a barrister in Northern Ireland or a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature of Northern Ireland shall have—
(a)in any court the rights of audience enjoyed by solicitors of the Supreme Court of Judicature of Northern Ireland and, in the Crown Court in Northern Ireland, such additional rights of audience as may be given by virtue of subsection (14) below; and
(b)in the Crown Court in Northern Ireland, the rights of audience enjoyed by barristers employed by the Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland.
(13)Subject to subsection (14) below, the reference in subsection (12)(a) above to rights of audience enjoyed by solicitors of the Supreme Court of Judicature of Northern Ireland is a reference to such rights enjoyed in the Crown Court in Northern Ireland as restricted by any direction given by the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland under section 50 of the M1Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978.
(14)For the purpose of giving any member so designated who is a barrister in Northern Ireland or a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature of Northern Ireland additional rights of audience in the Crown Court in Northern Ireland, the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland may direct that any direction given by him under the said section 50 shall not apply to such members.
(15)Schedule 1 to this Act shall have effect.
(16)For the purposes of this section (including that Schedule) references to the conduct of any proceedings include references to the proceedings being discontinued and to the taking of any steps (including the bringing of appeals and making of representations in respect of applications for bail) which may be taken in relation to them.
(17)In the application of this section (including that Schedule) to Northern Ireland references to the Attorney General are to be construed as references to him in his capacity as Attorney General for Northern Ireland.
Textual Amendments
F1S. 1(9)-(11) repealed (31.7.2000) by 1999 c. 22, s. 106, Sch. 15 Pt II (with Sch. 14 paras. 7(2), 36(9)); S.I. 2000/1920, art. 2(c)
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