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(2) A person appointed to act in the office of Director of
Public Prosecutions shall, subject to the provisions of subsection (1) of
section 224 and section 225 of this Constitution, cease so to act -
(a)
when a person is appointed to hold that
office and has assumed the functions thereof
or, as the case may be, when the person in
whose place he is acting resumes the functions
of that office; or
at such earlier time as may be prescribed by
the terms of his appointment.
(b)
Oaths.
Second
Schedule
222. The Director of Public Prosecution shall not enter upon the
duties of his office unless he has taken and subscribed the oaths of
allegiance and of office set out in the Second Schedule to this
Constitution.
223. In the exercise of the powers vested in him by subsection (1)
of section 220 of this Constitution, the Director of Public Prosecutions
shall not be subject to the direction or control of any other person or
authority.
Not subject
to direction
or control.
Vacating
office.
224. (1) Subject to the provisions of section 225 of this
Constitution, the Director of Public Prosecutions shall vacate his office
when he attains the prescribed age.
(2) The prescribed age for the purposes of subsection (1)
of this section is the age of sixty years or such other age as may be
prescribed by Parliament:
Provided that any law enacted by Parliament, to the
extent to which it alters the prescribed age after a
person has been appointed to hold or to act in the office
of Director of Public Prosecutions, shall not have effect
in relation to that person unless he consents that it
should have effect.
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