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 in events of breach of secured bonds for bailing out defendants or for taking out articles for caretaking according to the Criminal Procedure Code, [the public prosecutors] have the power and duty to run cases for execution of those bonds, in respect of which no costs shall be levied upon the public prosecutors;

other powers and duties as designated by announcements of or as approved by the PPSC for the implementation of laws or cabinet resolutions;

[the public prosecutors] are to carry out other duties which laws designate as the powers and duties of public prosecutors;

[the public prosecutors] are to carry out other duties which have been designated as the powers and duties of the Office of the Attorney General, as assigned by the Attorney General.

In the performance of the duties under section 14 (3), (4), and (5) by a public prosecutor, the public prosecutor may issue an order summoning any relevant person to appear and give statement, but he shall not summon the other party to appear and give statement without consent of such party.

How much a public prosecutor in any position may act according to paragraph 1 shall be governed by the rules which are designated by the Office of the Attorney General with the approval of the PPSC.

The Attorney General and the Deputy Attorneys General have the power to run cases in every court. The Chief Regional Prosecutors have the power to run cases in every court within their Regions. The other public prosecutors have the power to run cases in the courts of the areas where they are in regular service only, with the following exceptions:

When the Attorney General orders a public prosecutor regularly serving in one area to go assist in the public service in another area temporarily or to run any specific case, or when a Chief Regional Prosecutor orders a public prosecutor regularly serving in one area within his Region to go assist in the public service in another area temporarily or to run any specific case within the Region, that public prosecutor shall have the power to run cases in the courts of the area and shall have the power to run the cases up to the appellate courts and the Supreme Court of Justice or Supreme Administrative Court, as the case may be.

When a Chief Regional Prosecutor orders a public prosecutor regularly serving in his Region to have the power to run cases in every court within the Region, that public prosecutor shall have the power to run cases in every court within such Region and shall have the power to the cases up to the appellate courts and the Supreme Court of Justice or Supreme Administrative Court, as the case may be.