Before December 1999, the Secretary for Justice () was a bureau secretary and senior law officer in

Portuguese Macau Macau was under Portuguese Empire, Portuguese rule from the establishment of the first official Portuguese settlement in 1557 until its Handover of Macau, handover to China in 1999. It comprised the Municipality of Macau and the Municipality of ...

. The Secretary headed the Secretariat for Justice, which was responsible for legal affairs and public prosecution in the colony. The department was replaced by the position of Secretariat for Administration and Justice on 20 December 1999, following the

handover of Macau The handover of Macau from the Portuguese Republic to the People's Republic of China was at midnight on 20 December 1999. This event ended 442 years of Portuguese rule in the former settlement, which began in 1557. Macau was settled by Por ...

. List of responsibilities: * Legal Affairs Bureau * Printing Bureau * International Law Office * Gabinete para a Reforma Judica

List of Secretariats

* Dr.

Jorge Alberto Hagedorn Rangel Dr. Jorge Alberto da Conceição Hagedorn Rangel (born ) is a Macau politician who served as the Secretary for Public Administration, Education and Youth. Early life Rangel was born into a Portuguese family in Macau. See also * Politics of Maca ...

- Secretary until 1999; now President of the Macau International Institute

* Ho Ven On - Assistant Secretary * Jorge Noronha e Silveira - under secretary

Attorney general

The former role of the Attorney General was that of the highest law officer of Macau. * Antonio Simoes Redinha - last Attorney General of Macau

References

Casa de Macau
- references to former Portuguese secretaries {{DEFAULTSORT:Secretary For Justice (Macau) Government departments and agencies of Macau Members of the Executive Council of Macau

Macau Macau or Macao is a special administrative regions of China, special administrative region of the People's Republic of China (PRC). With a population of about people and a land area of , it is the most List of countries and dependencies by p ...

Political office-holders in Macau Positions of the Macau Government 1999 disestablishments in Macau