Hong Kong Ordinances

INDEPENDENT COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION ORDINANCE - SECT 13E

Time limit for prosecution of offences under section 13B or 13C

(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 13B or 13C within 1 year from the time when the matter of such
complaint or information respectively arose.

(2) Where a person has, before the commencement of the Independent Commission
Against Corruption (Amendment) Ordinance 1980 (27 of 1980), committed an
offence under section 13B or 13C and but for subsection (1) would not be
liable to prosecution for that offence by reason of section  26 of the
Magistrates Ordinance ( Cap 227), he shall, notwithstanding subsection (1),
not be liable to be prosecuted for that offence. (Added 27 of 1980 s. 6)