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MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894 - SECT 683

Prosecution of offences.

683.(1) Subject to any special provisions of this Act neither a conviction for
an offence nor an order for payment of money shall be made under this Act in
any summary proceeding instituted in the United Kingdom, unless that
proceeding is commenced within six months after the commission of the offence,
or after the cause of complaint arises as the case may be; or, if both or
either of the parties to the proceeding happen during that time to be out of
the United Kingdom, unless the same is commenced, in the case of a summary
conviction within two months, and in the case of a summary order within six
months, after they both first happen to arrive, or to be at one time, within
the United Kingdom [and, in the case of a summary conviction, before the
expiration of three years beginning with the date on which the offence was
committed].

(3) No law for the time being in force under any Act, ordinance, or otherwise,
which limits the time within which summary proceedings may be instituted shall
affect any summary proceeding under this Act.

Subs.(4) spent

Application of Summary Jurisdiction Acts in certain cases.



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