The Immigration (Isle of Man) Order 2008

Part 3 – criminal proceedings

30.—(1) Section 28 of the 1971 Act(1) is modified as follows.

(2) For subsection (1) substitute—

“(1) Where the offence is one to which, under section 24 or 26 above, an extended time limit for prosecution is to apply, then a complaint relating to the offence may be tried by a court of summary jurisdiction—

(a) if it is made within six months after the commission of the offence, or

(b) if it is made—

(i) within three years after the commission of the offence, and

(ii) not more than two months after the date certified by the chief constable to be the date on which evidence sufficient to justify proceedings came to the notice of a constable.”.

(3) Omit subsection (2).

(1)

There are amendments to section 28, but none is relevant to this Order.