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 Section 5—The Public Prosecution Service

188. The Public Prosecution Service represents the people before the courts and its principal object is to see to the fulfilment of the Constitution and the law. Officers of the Public Prosecution Service shall be non-removable and independent in their functions, excepting the Public Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, who shall be freely appointed and removed by the President of the Republic.

189. Entry in the career of public prosecution shall be by competitive examination, and promotion shall be made in the manner which this Constitution establishes for judges. Appointments, including those to newly created offices, promotions, transfers, suspensions, disciplinary steps, leaves of absence, removals and retirements of officers of the public prosecution service, and the acceptance of their exchanges and resignations, shall be effected in accordance with what is determined by law.

190. The Public Prosecutor of the Supreme Court shall have the qualifications required to be a justice of the Supreme Court; Assistant Public Prosecutors of said Court and the Public Prosecutors of the other courts must be Cubans by birth, at least 30 years of age, and have full enjoyment of civil and political rights. The other officers of the Public Prosecution Service shall have the qualifications specified by law.

191. When the Government litigates, or must be a party to any proceedings, it shall do so through the medium of Government attorneys, who shall form a body whose organisation and functions shall be regulated by law.

Section 6.—The Superior Council of Social Defence and Juvenile Courts

192. There shall be a Superior Council of Social Defence which shall be charged with seeing to the execution of the sanctions and the measures of security that imply deprivation or limitation of individual liberty as well as with the organisation, direction and administration of all establishments or institutions required for the most efficacious prevention and repression of criminality.

This body, which shall be autonomous in the exercise of its technical and administrative functions, shall also have charge