Commentary First Group of Parts – Discipline Part 13 – Discipline: Miscellaneous and Supplementary Section 326: Exclusion of enactments requiring consent of Attorney General or DPP
645.This section makes it clear that proceedings under the Act for a service offence do not require the consent of the Attorney General or the Director of Public Prosecutions, even if proceedings for a corresponding civilian offence would require such consent. This does not affect section 61(2), which requires the consent of the Attorney General to the bringing of a charge once a time limit under any of sections 55 to 58 has expired.