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Apart from having the powers and duties relating to administrative and academic works for supporting and facilitating public prosecutors, the Office of the Attorney General shall also have the following powers and duties:

to provide assistance to the people in regard to the carrying out of legal affairs, as well as the protection and safeguarding of the rights and freedoms of the people and the provision of legal knowledge to the people;

to provide advice to and review draft contracts or legal documents for the Government and state agencies;

to provide advice to and review draft contracts or legal documents for juristic persons who are not state agencies but have been established by acts or royal decrees, when found appropriate;

to carry out activities as to the execution of civil judgments or administrative judgments on behalf of the Government or state agencies for whom the public prosecutors have accepted to run the cases;

to carry out activities as requested by the Council of Ministers, save where those activities would be incompatible with the works under the duties of, or would be incompatible with the independence in the performance of duties of, the public prosecutors;

to carry out activities in relation to training for the sake of improvement of the public servants in the public prosecution service;

to cooperate with state agencies in the administration of justice and the preservation of the benefits of the State and the people;

to contact and coordinate with foreign institutions or agencies in relation to the matters under the powers and duties of the public prosecutors or Office of the Attorney General;

to carry out any other acts which law provides to be subject to the powers and duties of the public prosecutors or Office of the Attorney General.

In reviewing draft contracts according to (2) and (3), the Office of the Attorney General shall have the duty to preserve the benefits of the State. In this regard, the Office of the Attorney General has the duty to report to the Government, or the state agencies under (2) or the juristic persons under (3) who are parties to the contracts, the matters for the perfection of which improvement or alteration should be made, the disadvantageous matters, or the matters which are likely to bring about damage to the State.