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Addition of new section
13E.
(Cap.. 201.)
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and any alleged or suspected conspiracy to
commit an offence under the Prevention of
..
Bribery Ordinance and any alleged or suspected
offence of blackmail committed by a Crown
servant by or through the misuse of office".
The principal Ordinance is amended by adding
after section 13D the following section
"Time limit for
prosecution of offences under
section 13B or 13C.
(Cap. 227.)
13E. (1) Notwithstanding section
26 of the Magistrates Ordinance, a
complaint may be made or an information
laid in respect of an offence under
section 1-3B or 13C within 1 year from
the time when the matter of such complaint
or information respectively arose.
(2) Where a person has, before the
commencement of the Independent Commission
Against Corruption (Amendment) Ordinance
1980, committed an offence under section
13B or 13C and but for subsection (1)
would not be liable to prosecution for
that offence by reason of section 26 of
the Magistrates Ordinance, he shall,
notwithstanding subsection (1), not
be liable to be prosecuted for that
offence.".
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