{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1960/section-244",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1960/section-244.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/8-9/16",
  "legislation_title": "Road Traffic Act 1960",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1960",
  "path": "section/244",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "244",
  "heading": "Time for commencing summary proceedings for certain offences.",
  "text": "Summary proceedings for an offence . . . . . . . . . under section 99(5) of the Transport Act 1968 may be brought—\n(a) within a period of six months from the date on which evidence sufficient in the opinion of the prosecutor to warrant the proceedings came to his knowledge; but no such proceedings shall be brought by virtue of this section more than three years after the commission of the offence. For the purposes of this section a certificate signed by or on behalf of the prosecutor and stating the date on which such evidence as aforesaid came to his knowledge shall be conclusive evidence of that fact; and a certificate stating that matter and purporting to be so signed shall be deemed to be so signed unless the contrary is proved.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 244 repealed (1.1.1996) by 1995 c. 23, ss. 60(1)(2), Sch. 7 para. 2, Sch. 8 Pt. I (with ss. 54, 55); S.I. 1995/2181, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Road Traffic Act 1972 (c. 20), Sch. 9 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by Road Traffic (Consequential Provisions) Act 1988 (c. 54, SIF 107:1), s. 4, Sch. 3 para. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words substituted by Vehicle and Driving Licences Act 1969 (c. 27), Sch. 2 para. 11"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/8-9/16/section/244",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:11:26.109960+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."
}