Procurator General of Macau is the senior law officer of Macau

Macau

Macau , also spelled Macao , is, along with Hong Kong, one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China...

. The PG replaced the Attorney General of Macau

Secretary for Justice (Macau)

Secretary for Justice or Secretaria da Justiça was a bureau secretary and senior law officer in the Portuguese administration in Macau. The Secretary headed the Secretariat for Justice, which was responsible for legal affairs and public prosecution in the colony...

 in December 1999 in the new Government of Macau.

The PG reports to the Secretariat for Administration and Justice (Macau)

Secretariat for Administration and Justice (Macau)

The Secretariat for Administration and Justice is a department of the government of Macau. The secretariat is responsible for the civil service, legal affairs, and municipal affairs in the region...

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Organization

With the exception of the title change from Attorney General to Prosecutor-General, the other office holders are the same as before the handover in 1999. The office is similar to most legal structures in Europe and North America.

List of Procurator General of Macau since 1999:

• Ho Chio Meng
  Ho Chio Meng
  Ho Chio Meng is the first and current Prosecutor General of the Public Prosecutions Office of the Macao Special Administrative Region, having been appointed in 1999, and re-appointed in 2004 and 2009....
  
   1999–

List of Director of Public Prosecution

• Lai Kin Ian
  Lai Kin Ian
  Lai Kin Ian is the Director of Public Prosecution under the Procurator General of Macau. He is a senior state attorney under the Secretariat for Administration and Justice .-References:...
  
  

Public Prosecutor

Department of Public Prosecution (Ministerio Publico) is the office charged with supervising the enforcement of laws of Macau.

The DPP consists of

• Assistant Prosecutor-General (Procurador-Geral Adjunto)
  • Vong Vai Va PhD(Law) – Part-time Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Macau
    University of Macau
    The University of Macau, ;, established in 1981, was the first and currently the largest university in Macau, a former Portuguese colony. It was formerly known as University of East Asia , and was renamed the University of Macau in 1991. The university offers about 100 Doctoral, Master's and...
    
    
• 4 Chief Prosecutors (Procuradores)
• 24 Prosecutor
  Prosecutor
  The prosecutor is the chief legal representative of the prosecution in countries with either the common law adversarial system, or the civil law inquisitorial system...
  
  s (Delegados do Procurador)

External links

• Secretariat for Administration and Justice (Macau)