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AID TO INDUSTRY (AMENDMENT) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 7

Time for bringing summary proceedings.

7.(1) Notwithstanding any provision in any enactment prescribing the period
within which summary proceedings may be commenced, summary proceedings for an
offence under the principal Act or this Act may be commenced at any time
within the period of six months from the date on which evidence, sufficient in
the opinion of the Ministry to justify a prosecution for the offence, comes to
the knowledge of the Ministry, or within the period of twelve months after the
commission of the offence, whichever period last expires.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) a certificate, purporting to be signed
by the Minister or a secretary or assistant secretary of the Ministry as to
the date on which such evidence as aforesaid came to the knowledge of the
Ministry, shall be conclusive evidence thereof.

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