HC Deb 03 July 1975 vol 894 c1764

Amendments made: No. 116, in page 18, line 5, at beginning insert: '(a) refuses or fails without reasonable cause to comply with a requirement of a preliminary notice under section 20 above;'.

No. 117, in page 18, line 10, leave out from 'particular' to end of line 18.

No. 118, in page 18, line 33, at end insert: '(3A) Summary proceedings for an offence under subsection (1)(c) above may be brought within a period of six months from the date on which evidence sufficient in the opinion of the prosecutor to warrant the proceedings came to his knowledge; but no proceedings shall be brought by virtue of this subsection more than three years after the commission of the offence. (3B) For the purposes of subsection (3A) above a certificate signed by or on behalf of the prosecutor and stating the date on which evidence as aforesaid came to his knowledge shall be conclusive evidence of that fact; and a certificate stating that matter and purporting to be so signed shall be deemed to be so signed unless the contrary is proved'.

No. 119, in page 19, line 5, after 'Act', insert— 'other than an offence under subsection (3) above'.—[Mr. Kaufman.]

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