Article 6

Paragraph (8) of article 12 of the Order shall be replaced by the following–

“(8)

Notwithstanding anything in section 136 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995^f1 proceedings in Scotland for an offence under articles 7, 9(2), 10(10)(a), (b)(i) or (c) of this Order or paragraph 5(a) or (c) of the Schedule to this Order may be commenced at any time within 12 months after the date on which evidence sufficient in the Lord Advocate’s opinion to justify the proceedings came to his knowledge: and subsection (3) of that section applies for the purpose of this paragraph as it applies for the purpose of that section:

• Provided that such proceedings shall not be commenced after the expiration of 3 years from the commission of the offence.”.