S.L. 90.1 Art. 1DCap. 31. Cap. 101.   Cap. 373.      Cap. 101. Cap. 31.

The Attorney General shall have the power to decide whether a prosecution is or is not to 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 2024:

(a) offences against the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, where the Attorney General directed that the offences may be prosecuted before the Criminal Court or the Court of Magistrates as a court of criminal judicature, provided that the offence shall not fall within the original jurisdiction of the Court of Magistrates as a court of criminal judicature;

(b) offences against the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance where the Attorney General directed that the (TRANSITORY PROVISIONS)

offences may be prosecuted before the Criminal Court or the Court of Magistrates as a court of criminal judicature, provided that the offence shall not fall within the original jurisdiction of the Court of Magistrates as a court of criminal judicature;

(c) offences of money laundering as provided for in article 3 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act including where such offences are prosecuted together with offences against the Dangerous Drugs

Ordinance or the Medical and Kindred Professions

Ordinance;

(d) attempts, conspiracy to commit or complicity in the offences provided for in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c).