Customs Consolidation Act, 1876

In whose names indictments or suits to be preferred.

255. All indictments or suits for any offences or the recovery of any penalties or forfeitures under the Customs Acts shall, except in the cases where summary jurisdiction is given to justices, be preferred or commenced in the name of Her Majesty's Attorney-General for England or Ireland, or of the Lord Advocate of Scotland, or of some officer of Customs or Inland Revenue.