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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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