Section 431Part 18 — LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
Time limit for summary offences
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Subject to subsections (2) and (3), no person shall be convicted of an offence under this Act in summary proceedings unless —
the proceedings were commenced within six months beginning with the date on which the offence was committed; or
in a case where the accused happens during that period to be out of the Islands, the proceedings were commenced within two months after the accused first happens to arrive within the Islands and before the expiration of three years beginning with the date on which the offence was committed.
Nothing in subsection (1) shall apply in relation to any indictable offence.
Subsection (1) shall not prevent a conviction for an offence in summary proceedings begun before the expiration of three years beginning with the date on which the offence was committed and before —
the expiration of the period of six months beginning with the day when evidence which the Director of Public Prosecutions considers is sufficient to justify a prosecution for the offence came to the Director of Public Prosecution's knowledge; or
the expiration of two months beginning with the day when the accused was first present in the Islands after the expiration of the period mentioned in paragraph (a), if throughout that period the accused was absent from the Islands.
For the purpose of subsection (3) —
a certificate of the Director of Public Prosecutions stating that evidence came to the knowledge of the Director of Public Prosecutions on a particular day shall be conclusive evidence of that fact; and
a document purporting to be a certificate of the Director of Public Prosecutions and to be signed on behalf of the Director of Public Prosecutions shall be presumed to be such certificate unless the contrary is proved.