Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate Act 2000
The Attorney General shall appoint a person as Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of the Crown Prosecution Service.
The Chief Inspector may appoint inspectors and other staff to assist him in the discharge of his functions.
There shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament—
such sums in respect of salary, pension, allowances and compensation for the Chief Inspector as the Attorney General may determine, and
expenditure incurred by the Chief Inspector in the discharge of his functions, including expenditure on payments to or in respect of staff.
The Chief Inspector shall—
inspect or arrange for the inspection of the operation of the Crown Prosecution Service,
report to the Attorney General on any matter connected with the operation of the Service which the Attorney General refers to him, and
submit an annual report to the Attorney General on the operation of the Service.
The Attorney General shall lay before Parliament a copy of any report which he receives under subsection (1)(c).
The Chief Inspector may designate an inspector to discharge his functions during any period when he is absent or unable to act.
This section applies to the Serious Fraud Office as it applies to the Crown Prosecution Service.
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The Schedule to this Act (which makes further provision about the Chief Inspector) has effect.
This Act may be cited as the Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate Act 2000.
Sections 1 and 2 shall come into force on such day as the Attorney General may appoint by order made by statutory instrument.
This Act shall extend to England and Wales only.
Section 2
The Chief Inspector may delegate any of his functions (to such extent as he may determine) to another public authority. If the carrying out of an inspection is delegated under sub-paragraph (1) it is nevertheless to be regarded for the purposes of this Act as carried out by the Chief Inspector. In this Schedule “public authority” includes any person certain of whose functions are functions of a public nature.
The Chief Inspector shall from time to time, or at such times as the Attorney General may specify by order, prepare— Before preparing an inspection programme or an inspection framework the Chief Inspector shall consult the Attorney General and (subject to sub-paragraph (3))— and he shall send to each of those persons or bodies a copy of each programme or framework once it is prepared. The requirement in sub-paragraph (2) to consult, and to send copies to, a person or body listed in paragraphs (a) to (j) of that sub-paragraph is subject to any agreement made between the Chief Inspector and that person or body to waive the requirement in such cases or circumstances as may be specified in the agreement. The Attorney General may by order specify the form that inspection programmes or inspection frameworks are to take. Nothing in any inspection programme or inspection framework is to be read as preventing the Chief Inspector from making visits, or causing visits to be made, without notice.