Procuratorate

Definition and stakes

Public Procurators Law of the People's Republic of China (2001)

“ Where a procuratorate at a higher level discovers that the appointment of a person as public procurator made by a procuratorate at a lower level is in violation of the provisions governing the qualifications for public procurators, the former shall suggest to the latter that it revoke the appointment in accordance with law, or that it, in accordance with law, suggest to the standing committee of the people's congress at the same level that it revoke the appointment. ”
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5th National People's Congress,  Constitution of the People's Republic of China (1978)

“ The Supreme People's Procuratorate exercises procuratorial authority to ensure observance of the Constitution and the law by all the departments under the State Council, the local organs of state at various levels, the personnel of organs of state and the citizens. Local people's procuratorates and special people's procuratorates exercise procuratorial authority within the limits prescribed by law. The people's procuratorates are formed as prescribed by law. ”
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