Institution of proceedings by the Director of Public Prosecutions

(1) On receipt of the documents relating to the preliminary inquiry, the Director of Public Prosecutions shall, if he sees fit to do so, institute such criminal proceedings in the court against the accused person for any crime or crimes disclosed in the depositions as to him may seem proper. (2) Every indictment shall be presented to the court by and in the name of the Director of Public Prosecutions. (3) The Director of Public Prosecutions may charge the accused with the crime for which he has been committed for trial, and in addition thereto or in substitution therefor, with any other crime or crimes which may be supported by the evidence and facts disclosed in any examination or deposition taken before an examining magistrate in his presence, being crimes which may lawfully be joined in the same indictment. (4) A charge of a previous conviction of a crime may, notwithstanding that it was not included in the committal, be included in any indictment. 60 (5) An indictment may include counts for crimes arising out of depositions taken at two or more preliminary inquiries, but if the judge at the trial of the accused on any such indictment considers that the inclusion of one or more of such crimes is likely to embarrass the accused person in his defence, he may direct that the count or counts for such crime or crimes be tried separately.