Criminal Code (Cap. 9)
Criminal Code (Cap. 9), article 4
4. (1) The criminal action is esse ntially a public action and is
vested in the State and is pros ecuted in the name of the Republ ic of
Malta, through the Executive Police or the Attorney General, as the
case may be, according to law.
Prosecution.(2) A criminal action is prosecuted ex officio in all cases where
the complaint of the private party is not requisite to set the action in
motion or where the law does not expressly leave the prosecutio n
of the action to a private party.
Persons subject
to prosecution.
Amended by:
VI.1899.1;
XI.1899.107;
I.1903.1;
XXXI.1966.2;
XXXIII.1972.2;
XI.1973.377;
XXIV .1975.2;
XXIX.1990.2;
XVII.1996.19;
III.2002.3;
XIII.2002.10;
XXIV .2002.13;
XXIV .2014.3;
XLIX.2016.8.
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