# Criminal Law Act 1977, Paragraph 1


A prosecution for an offence to which paragraph 14 or 15 (incest and attempts thereat) of Part II of Schedule 2 (table of offences with mode of prosecution) relates shall not be commenced except by or with the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions; and accordingly in sub-paragraph (a) and (b) of each of those paragraphs, in the second column, for the words from “without” to “behalf” substitute “except by or with the consent”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1977/45/schedule/12/part/14/paragraph/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-law-act-1977/schedule-12/part-14/paragraph-1
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