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Paragraph 30 Part 3 – criminal proceedingsI1

United Kingdom

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

Section 28 of the 1971 Actf1 is modified as follows.

(2)

For subsection (1) substitute—

“(1)

Where the offence is one to which, under section 24 or 26 above, an extended time limit for prosecution is to apply, then a complaint relating to the offence may be tried by a court of summary jurisdiction—

(a)

if it is made within six months after the commission of the offence, or

(b)

if it is made—

(i)

within three years after the commission of the offence, and

(ii)

not more than two months after the date certified by the chief constable to be the date on which evidence sufficient to justify proceedings came to the notice of a constable.”.

(3)

Omit subsection (2).

Annotations

Commencement

I1

Sch. 3 para. 30 in force at 13.3.2008 for specified purposes and at 1.5.2008 in so far as not already in force, see art. 1(2)

Footnotes

f1

There are amendments to section 28, but none is relevant to this Order.