S.L. 90.1 Art. 1BCap. 9.  Cap. 9.     Cap. 9.       Cap. 9.              Cap. 9.     Cap. 9.                Cap. 9. C ap. 585.

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 st Magistrates as a court of criminal inquiry on or after the 1 October 2022:

(a) forgery of Government debentures, forgery of

Government, judicial or official acts and counterfeiting of the public seal of Malta under sub-title I of Title V of Part II of Book First of the Criminal Code; (TRANSITORY PROVISIONS)

(b) forgery of acts by public officer under sub-title II

of Title V of Part II of Book First of the Criminal Code and forgery or uttering of currency under sub-title III of Title V of

Part II of Book First of the Criminal Code;

(c) prostituting of descendant under age by ascendant, of spouse under age or of minor by husband or wife or tutor, of descendant or spouse of age, by ascendant or husband or wife under sub-title I of Title VII of Part II of Book First of the

Criminal Code;

(d) instigation with violence of persons under age to prostitution or to participate in a pornographic performance, inducing persons under age to prostitution or to participation in a pornographic performance, participation in sexual activities with persons under the age of sixteen (16) years, unlawful sexual activities, compelling or inducing a person of age to prostitution, non-consensual act of a sexual nature, meeting a child following sexual grooming etc., advertisement of sexual tourism under sub-title II of Title VII of Part II of Book First of the Criminal Code;

(e) female genital mutilation, enforced sterilization, forced marriage, luring of a person to the territory of another

State to marry forcefully under sub-title IX of Title VIII of Part

II of Book First of the Criminal Code;

(f) causing explosion likely to endanger life or property, discharge etc. of lethal device, possession, use etc. of nuclear material, use of radioactive material, lethal device or nuclear facility with intent to cause death, unlawful possession of radioactive material or making or possession of a lethal device, setting on fire of arsenals, etc., arson endangering life, arson to the common danger, arson without danger of life, arson of vineyards, etc., destruction by the springing of a mine, exhibition of false lights, etc., with danger to navigation and setting on fire of one’s own property under sub-title IV of Title

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

(g) illicit importation of radioactive waste under article 39 of the Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection Act;

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