Section 78Part 4 — Procedure in Trials before the Summary Court
Limitation of time for proceedings for summary offences
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Except where a longer time is specially allowed by law, no offence which is triable summarily shall be triable by a Summary Court unless the charge or complaint relating to it is laid within six months from the date on which evidence sufficient to justify proceedings came to the actual or constructive knowledge of a competent complainant:
if the circumstances giving rise to the complaint or charge occurred upon a vessel upon the high seas, then the court shall have jurisdiction in respect thereof if the complaint or charge was laid within six months after the arrival of the vessel at that vessel's port of discharge in the Islands.