About: Prosecution of Offences Act 1879     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FProsecution_of_Offences_Act_1879

The Prosecution of Offences Act 1879 was a United Kingdom Act of Parliament passed in 1879. It established the role of Director of Public Prosecutions at a maximum annual salary of £2000, reporting to the Attorney General, with up to six assistants. Both Director and assistants had to be barristers or solicitors of the Supreme Court of Judicature with a minimum of ten (Director) or seven (assistants) years' experience, but were not allowed to practice outside their roles as assistants or Director.

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • Prosecution of Offences Act 1879 (en)
rdfs:comment
  • The Prosecution of Offences Act 1879 was a United Kingdom Act of Parliament passed in 1879. It established the role of Director of Public Prosecutions at a maximum annual salary of £2000, reporting to the Attorney General, with up to six assistants. Both Director and assistants had to be barristers or solicitors of the Supreme Court of Judicature with a minimum of ten (Director) or seven (assistants) years' experience, but were not allowed to practice outside their roles as assistants or Director. (en)
dcterms:subject
Wikipage page ID
Wikipage revision ID
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
sameAs
statute book chapter
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
territorial extent
long title
  • An Act for more effectually providing for the Prosecution of Offences in England, and for other purposes. (en)
parliament
  • Parliament of the United Kingdom (en)
short title
  • Prosection of Offences Act 1879 (en)
has abstract
  • The Prosecution of Offences Act 1879 was a United Kingdom Act of Parliament passed in 1879. It established the role of Director of Public Prosecutions at a maximum annual salary of £2000, reporting to the Attorney General, with up to six assistants. Both Director and assistants had to be barristers or solicitors of the Supreme Court of Judicature with a minimum of ten (Director) or seven (assistants) years' experience, but were not allowed to practice outside their roles as assistants or Director. The Director's role was to "institute, undertake, or carry on ... similar [criminal] proceedings" at Crown Courts and before magistrates, Justices of the Peace and sessions of oyer and terminer, as well as advising those involved in such proceedings, such as court clerks and head police officers. It also provided for the Director to force a prosecution if others failed or refused to do so. (en)
royal assent
prov:wasDerivedFrom
page length (characters) of wiki page
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage of
is constituting instrument of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git139 as of Feb 29 2024


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Mar 19 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (378 GB total memory, 59 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software