Chapter:	201	Title:	PREVENTION OF BRIBERY ORDINANCE	Gazette Number:
Section:	31A	Heading:	Time limit for prosecution of offences	Version Date:	30/06/1997

(1) Notwithstanding section 26 of the Magistrates Ordinance (Cap 227), a complaint may be made or an information laid in respect of an offence under section 3, 14(5), 14A(5), 14C(6) or 33A within 2 years from the time when the matter of such complaint or information respectively arose.
(2) Notwithstanding section 26 of the Magistrates Ordinance (Cap 227), 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 (28 of 1980), committed an offence under section 3, 13(3), 13(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 (Cap 227), he shall, notwithstanding this section, not be liable to be prosecuted for that offence.