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SWAN AND CANNING RIVERS MANAGEMENT ACT 2006 (NO. 51 OF 2006) - SECT 120

120 .         Time for bringing prosecution

        (1)         A prosecution for an offence under this Act must be commenced within 24 months after the date on which the offence is alleged to have been committed.

        (2)         Despite subsection (1), if a prosecution notice alleging an offence under this Act specifies the day on which the evidence of the alleged offence first came to the attention of a person authorised to institute the prosecution under section 119(1) —

            (a)         the prosecution may be made within 24 months after that day; and

            (b)         the prosecution notice need not contain particulars of the day on which the offence is alleged to have been committed.

        (3)         The day on which evidence first came to the attention of a person authorised to institute a prosecution under section 119(1) is, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, the day specified in the prosecution notice.



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