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 The following shall be repealed:

the Public Prosecutors Act, 2498 BE;

the Public Prosecutors Act (No 2), 2500 BE;

the Public Prosecutors Act (No 3), 2502 BE

the Public Prosecutors Act (No 4), 2507 BE;

the Public Prosecutors Act (No 5), 2517 BE.

In this Act—

“PPSC” means the Public Prosecution Service Commission under the law on the rules of the public servants in the public prosecution service;

“public servant in the public prosecution service” means a public servant in the public prosecution service under the law on the rules of the public servants in the public prosecution service;

“public prosecutor” means a person who has appointed to a position of public prosecutor in accordance with this Act;

“Region” means a territorial area of the Office of the Attorney General as designated by the PPSC in accordance with section 7;

“state agency” means a constitutional institution, central public body, provincial public body, local public body, state enterprise, public organisation, other agency of the State, or any other agency which carries out the affairs of the State;

“state authority” means a public servant, officer, official, employee, or worker called otherwise who belongs to a state agency, whether he is appointed or elected.

The rules under section 14, paragraph 3, which are issued in accordance with paragraph 1 (2), [and those under] section 20, paragraph 1, section 21, paragraph 2, and section 27, paragraph 3, and the announcements under section 7, paragraph 4, section 9, paragraph 3, section 12, paragraph 2, and section 14(9), shall come into force upon their publication in the Royal Gazette.

The Attorney General shall be in charge of the execution of this Act.