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Referendums (Scotland) Act 2020

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Section 17 - Campaign offences: summary proceedings

174.Section 17 sets out that summary proceedings under section 16 or schedules 3 to 5 may be taken in respect of a body at any place where it has a place of business and, in the case of an individual, at any place where that individual is for the time being. Subsection (2) disapplies the time bar in section 136 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 and allows criminal proceedings to be commenced at any time within three years after the offence is committed, or within six months of the prosecutor having knowledge of sufficient evidence to justify proceedings.

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