Public Bodies Act 2011 : consultation on an order to give legal effect to the administrative merger of the Crown Prosecution Service and Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office

The Public Bodies Act 2011 establishes a framework for the abolition or merger of a range of public bodies.

The Act provides that actual reforms will be undertaken by means of secondary legislation.

The Government is minded to use the powers in the Act to implement the proposals outlined in this consultation in relation to the CPS and RCPO.

Unlike previous proposed mergers and reforms, the merger of the CPS and RCPO has already been achieved administratively.

The two organisations, however still remain legally distinct and it is considered desirable for them to be one organisation legally as well.

This consultation concerns an order under the Public Bodies Act 2011 that is intended to achieve this objective.