S.L. 90.1 Art. 1A Cap. 9.  Cap. 9.    Cap. 9.       Cap. 9.  Cap. 9.  Cap. 445. Cap. 405.

The Attorney General shall have the power to decide whether a prosecution shall or shall not be instituted in the following categories of offences when the charges are to be filed in the Court of Magistrates as a court of criminal judicature or in the Court of Magistrates as a Court of criminal inquiry on or after the 1st October 2021:

(a) traffic of Persons under sub-title VIII Bis of Title

VIII of Part II of Book First of the Criminal Code;

(b) piracy under sub-title IVB of Title IX of Part II of

Book First of the Criminal Code;

(c) rape, abduction, defilement of minors and instigation, encouragement or facilitation of defilement of minors under sub-title II of Title VII of Part II of Book First of the Criminal Code;

(d) causing or permitting an elderly or a dependent adult to suffer under circumstances likely to produce grievous bodily harm or death; grievous bodily harm followed by death;

offences relating to crimes against property and public safety under sub-title XI of Title VIII of Part II of Book First of the Criminal Code;

(e) computer misuse under sub-title V of Title IX of

Part II of Book First of the Criminal Code;

(f) wilful damage or destruction of cultural property under article 70 of the Cultural Heritage Act;

(g) endangering safety at airports under article 8 of the Airports and Civil Aviation (Security) Act;

(h) attempts or conspiracy to commit or complicity in the offences mentioned in paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f) and (g) above.

Powers not to prejudice the exercise of other powers granted by law