Section 431(3)

Summary proceedings in Scotland for such an offence shall not be commenced after the expiration of 3 years from the commission of the offence. Subject to this (and notwithstanding anything in section 136 of the Criminal Procdure (Scotland) Act 1995), such proceedings may (in Scotland) be commenced at any time within 12 months after the date on which evidence sufficient in the Lord Advocate’s opinion to justify the proceedings came to his knowledge or, where such evidence was reported to him by the Secretary of State, within 12 months after the date on which it came to the knowledge of the latter; and subsection (3) of that section applies for the purpose of this subsection as it applies for the purpose of that section.

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Source: legislation.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-09-04