South Australian Consolidated Acts

DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS ACT 1991 - NOTES

Legislative history

Notes

• Amendments of this version that are uncommenced are not incorporated into the text.

• Please note—References in the legislation to other legislation or instruments or to titles of bodies or offices are not automatically updated as part of the program for the revision and publication of legislation and therefore may be obsolete.

• Earlier versions of this Act (historical versions) are listed at the end of the legislative history.

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Legislation amended by principal Act

The Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1991 amended the following:

Bail Act 1985

Children's Protection and Young Offenders Act 1979

Controlled Substances Act 1984

Crimes (Confiscation of Profits) Act 1986

Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935

Criminal Law (Sentencing) Act 1988

Evidence Act 1929

Freedom of Information Act 1991

Juries Act 1927

Justices Act 1921

Legal Practitioners Act 1981

Local and District Criminal Courts Act 1927

National Crime Authority (State Provisions) Act 1984

Supreme Court Act 1935

Principal Act and amendments

New entries appear in bold.

Year	No	Title	Assent	Commencement
1991	49	Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1991	21.11.1991	6.7.1992 (Gazette 25.6.1992 p1869)
1993	34	Statutes Amendment (Attorney-General's Portfolio) Act 1993	13.5.1993	ss 4 & 5—5.8.1993 (Gazette 29.7.1993 p682)
1994	21	Statutes Amendment (Attorney-General's Portfolio) Act 1994	26.5.1994	s 7—7.7.1994 (Gazette 7.7.1994 p4)
2001	15	Listening Devices (Miscellaneous) Amendment Act 2001	17.5.2001	s 17—1.1.2003 (Gazette 12.12.2002 p4554)
2005	74	Statutes Amendment (Criminal Procedure) Act 2005	8.12.2005	Pt 4 (s 11)—1.3.2007 (Gazette 1.3.2007 p672)
2009	84	Statutes Amendment (Public Sector Consequential Amendments) Act 2009	10.12.2009	Pt 47 (s 95)—1.2.2010 (Gazette 28.1.2010 p320)
2012	12	Statutes Amendment (Serious and Organised Crime) Act 2012	10.5.2012	Pt 7 (s 39)—uncommenced
2012	17	Statutes Amendment (Attorney-General's Portfolio) Act 2012	24.5.2012	Pt 4 (s 13)—uncommenced

Provisions amended

New entries appear in bold.

Entries that relate to provisions that have been deleted appear in italics.

Provision	How varied	Commencement
Long title	amended under Legislation Revision and Publication Act 2002	1.1.2003
s 2	omitted under Legislation Revision and Publication Act 2002
s 6
s 6(2)	amended by 84/2009 s 95	1.2.2010
s 6(4)	deleted by 34/1993 s 4	5.8.1993
s 6A	inserted by 34/1993 s 5	5.8.1993
s 7
s 7(1)	amended by 21/1994 s 7	7.7.1994
	amended by 15/2001 s 17(a)	1.1.2003
s 10A	inserted by 74/2005 s 11	1.3.2007
s 12
s 12(1)	amended by 15/2001 s 17(b)	1.1.2003
Sch 2	omitted under Legislation Revision and Publication Act 2002	1.1.2003

Historical versions

Reprint No 1—5.8.1993
Reprint No 2—7.7.1994
Reprint No 3—1.1.2003
1.3.2007