Territorial Extent Schedule 15: Private gaming and betting Part 18: Miscellaneous and General Section 347: Prosecution: time limit
856.This Section disapplies section 127(1) of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (c.43). That section limits the time for bringing a prosecution in the Magistrates’ court to six months from the date upon which the offence was alleged to have been committed. Subsection (1) imposes a longer time limit, of 12 months from the date upon which the offence was alleged to have been committed.