{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/red-meat-industry-wales-measure-2010/section-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/red-meat-industry-wales-measure-2010/section-13.json",
  "legislation": "mwa/2010/3",
  "legislation_title": "Red Meat Industry (Wales) Measure 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/red-meat-industry-wales-measure-2010",
  "path": "section/13",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Time limits for bringing proceedings",
  "text": "(1) Proceedings for an offence under this Measure may be brought at any time within the period of 6 months beginning with the date on which evidence sufficient in the opinion of the prosecutor to warrant the proceedings came to the prosecutor's knowledge.\n(2) But proceedings cannot be commenced more than 2 years after the date on which the offence was committed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 13 in force at 1.4.2012 by S.I. 2011/2802, art. 2(2) (with arts. 3, 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/mwa/2010/3/section/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:46.124253+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."
}