Apprenticeship Ordinance

(1)
No prosecution for an offence under
section 6
,
12
or
19
shall be commenced without the consent in writing of the Director.
(Amended
13 of 1982 s. 11
)
(2)
Before the Director gives his consent to prosecute under subsection (1) he shall hear the person against whom the allegation is made, or give him an opportunity of being heard.
(Amended
13 of 1982 s. 11
)
(3)
A prosecution for an offence under this Ordinance may be brought in the name of the Director and may for that purpose be commenced by an officer appointed under
section 33(2)
and authorized in writing by the Director.
(Replaced
34 of 1991 s. 8
)
(3A)
For the purposes of the prosecution of an offence mentioned in subsection (3), an officer appointed under
section 33(2)
and authorized in writing by the Director, who apart from this subsection is not qualified to act as a barrister or solicitor, may appear and plead before a magistrate and shall, in relation to the prosecution, have all the other rights of a person qualified to practise as a barrister or solicitor under the Legal Practitioners Ordinance (
Cap. 159
).
(Added
34 of 1991 s. 8
)
(4)
Nothing in this section shall derogate from the powers of the Secretary for Justice in respect of the prosecution of criminal offences.
(Amended
L.N. 362 of 1997
)