{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:49","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Right of Complaint or Accusation in General","number":"49","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/49/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART I — THE GENERAL PART","book":"BOOK I — OFFENCES AND THE OFFENDER","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 9. — Discontinuance and Extinction of the Prosecution and the Penalty"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"Prosecution with a view to a judgment and the enforcement of the penalty is a public proceeding and is instituted by the Attorney General in all cases where the law does not otherwise expressly provide. Prosecution by the Attorney General does not exclude the right of denunciation of offences to the public authority.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/49/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":53,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/53/?article=49&paragraph=lead#article-49-lead"}]},{"id":"u2","number":"","text":"These formalities set in motion the public prosecution in accordance with the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/49/#u2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":53,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/53/?article=49&paragraph=u2#article-49-u2"}]}],"caution":"English-language 2015 Ministry of Justice edition. Refworld catalogues this English expression as an unofficial translation; Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation."}