New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

JUSTICES ACT 1902 - SECT 56

56 Time within which information or complaints may be laid or made

(1) An information or complaint may, unless some other time is specially limited by the Act dealing with the matter, be laid or made at any time within six months from the time when the matter of the information or complaint arose.

(2) Where an information or complaint has been laid or made in writing without oath, any person able so to do may by his or her oath substantiate the matter thereof, whether or not he or she is the informant or complainant and whether or not that matter arose more than six months before being so substantiated.

(3) For the purposes of subsection (2), the matter of the information or complaint may be substantiated on oath before the Justice before whom the information or complaint was laid or made, or before some other Justice.