Save for military criminal proceedings, a charge shall be lawful even if it has been preferred by a public prosecutor other than the one operating at the court having competence and jurisdiction for conducting the proceedings.
However, in military criminal proceedings a charge shall only be lawful if it has been preferred by a public prosecutor designated by the military public prosecutor or the Chief Public Prosecutor for proceeding in military criminal proceedings. A violation of this rule attests to the absence of entitlement to prefer charges.