Vinokurov, A.Y. On the issue of identifying the term “prosecutor” when implementing the Administrative Offences Code of the Russian Federation.

Abstract: The object of studies in this article involves social relations, which are formed in the process of application by the prosecutor of the provisions of the Administrative Offences Code of the Russian Federation regarding competence of prosecutors as participants in the administrative offences cases. The author analyses the meaning of the term “prosecutor” within the context of implementation by the prosecutors of the specific competences provided for them in the Administrative Offences Code of the Russian Federation both in the process of application of means of administrative influence by the administrative jurisdiction bodies and within the framework of participation of prosecutors in the proceedings on the administrative offence cases. The conclusion is made on the need to amend the current legislation, and the author provides specific phrasing for the innovations. In the process of analysis the author mostly applied logical method and method of comparative legal studies within the context of comparison of the norms of the Administrative Offences Code of the Russian Federation and the Federal Law “On Prosecution in the Russian Federation”. The scientific novelty of the article is due to the fact that the author has provided in-depth analysis of the norms of the Administrative Offences Code of the Russian Federation containing mentions of the Prosecutor as an official and corresponding norms of the Federal Law “On Prosecution in the Russian Federation”, since this term covers a rather wide range of prosecution officials. The immediate result of the study involves new phrasings for the provisions of the said legislative acts.

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