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Addition of new section
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The principal Ordinance is amended by adding
after section 31 the following
Time limit for
prosecution of offences. (Cap. 227.)
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31 A. (1) Notwithstanding section 26
of the Magistrates Ordinance, a complaint
may be made or an information laid in
respect of an offence under section 3,
14(4), 14(5), 14A(5), 14C(6) or 33A within
3 years from the time when the matter of
such complaint or information respectively
arose.
(2)
Notwithstanding section 26 of
the Magistrates Ordinance, a complaint
may be made or an information laid in
respect of an offence under section 13(3),
13(4), 29 or 30(1) within 1 year from the
time when the matter of such complaint
or information respectively arose.
(3) Where a person has, before the
commencement of the Prevention of Bribery
(Amendment) Ordinance 1980, committed
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an offence under section 3, 13(3), 13(4)
14(4), 14(5), 14A(5), 14C(6), 29 or 30(1)
and, but for this section, would not be
liable to be prosecuted for that offence
by virtue of section 26 of the Magistrates
Ordinance, he shall, notwithstanding this
section, not be liable to be prosecuted
for that offence."
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