Regulation 27 Extended period for bringing prosecutionsI1

Northern Ireland

(1)

Proceedings for an offence under these Regulations may be commenced within the period of one year from the date on which evidence sufficient in the opinion of the prosecutor to warrant the proceedings came to the prosecutor’s knowledge.

(2)

But no such proceedings may be commenced by virtue of paragraph (1) more than three years after the commission of the offence.

(3)

For the purposes of this regulation—

(a)

a certificate signed by or on behalf of the prosecutor and stating the date on which evidence sufficient in the prosecutor’s opinion to warrant the proceedings came to the prosecutor’s knowledge is conclusive evidence of that fact; and

(b)

a certificate stating that matter and purporting to be so signed, is deemed to be so signed unless the contrary is proved.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Reg. 27 in operation at 28.4.2010, see reg. 1

Notes on the whole SR

Textual amendments

F1: Words in Regulations substituted (22.4.2011) by The Treaty of Lisbon (Changes in Terminology) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1043), arts. 2, 3-6, 8-10