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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-courts-act-2013/schedule-17/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2013/22",
  "legislation_title": "Crime and Courts Act 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-courts-act-2013",
  "path": "schedule/17/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The following are designated prosecutors—\n(a) the Director of Public Prosecutions;\n(b) the Director of the Serious Fraud Office;\n(c) any prosecutor designated under this paragraph by an order made by the Secretary of State.\n(2) A designated prosecutor must exercise personally the power to enter into a DPA and, accordingly, any enactment that enables a function of a designated prosecutor to be exercised by a person other than the prosecutor concerned does not apply.\n(3) But if the designated prosecutor is unavailable, the power to enter into a DPA may be exercised personally by a person authorised in writing by the designated prosecutor.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 17 para. 3 in force at 24.2.2014 by S.I. 2014/258, art. 2(b)"
    }
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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