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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/market-surveillance-northern-ireland-regulations-2021/schedule-6/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2021/858",
  "legislation_title": "The Market Surveillance (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/market-surveillance-northern-ireland-regulations-2021",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Time limit for prosecution of offences",
  "text": "(1) Summary proceedings for an offence under these Regulations may be instituted within 12 months after the date on which evidence sufficient in the opinion of the prosecutor to justify proceedings comes to the knowledge of the prosecutor.\n(2) No proceedings are to be brought more than three years after the commission of the offence.\n(3) For the purposes of this paragraph a certificate of the prosecutor as to the date on which such evidence as is referred to in sub-paragraph (1) came to their notice is conclusive evidence of that fact.\n(4) This paragraph has effect subject to paragraph 2(2)(n) of Schedule 3 (extension of time for bringing summary proceedings).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 5 in force at 16.7.2021, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "applied (with modifications)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/867",
      "affecting_title": "The Supply of Machinery (Safety) (Amendment etc.) and the EU Machinery Regulation (Enforcement etc. in Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/858/schedule/6/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T03:31:46.066945+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}