Schedule 14, paragraph 3(8)

For the purposes of this section in its application to England and Wales and, subject to section 30(4A) of this Act, in its application to Northern Ireland— proceedings for an offence are instituted— and where the application of this paragraph would result in there being more than one time for the institution of proceedings, they shall be taken to have been instituted at the earliest of those times; and when a justice of the peace issues a summons or warrant under section 1 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 in respect of the offence, when a person is charged with the offence after being taken into custody without a warrant, when a bill of indictment is preferred by virtue of section 2(2)(b) of the Administration of Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1933; proceedings for an offence are concluded without the master or owner being convicted on the occurrence of one of the following events— the discontinuance of the proceedings; the acquittal of the master or owner; the quashing of the master or owner’s conviction for the offence; the grant of Her Majesty’s pardon in respect of the master or owner’s conviction for the offence.

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