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54. Notwithstanding section 127 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 and section 136 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995(1), proceedings for an offence under regulations 46 to 51 may be commenced at any time within three years from the date of the offence, or one year from the date on which there comes to the knowledge of the prosecutor evidence sufficient to justify a prosecution for that offence, whichever is the earlier; and for the purposes of this regulation—
(a)a certificate of the prosecutor stating that such evidence came to his knowledge on a specified date shall be conclusive evidence of that fact; and
(b)a document purporting to be such a certificate and to be signed by or on behalf of the prosecutor in question shall be presumed to be such a certificate unless the contrary is proved.
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