''BOOK II Procedure Relating to Summary Offences PART II Proceedings up to Hearing TITLE XII Institution of Proceedings, 69. Limitation of period for making complaint''

(1) Where no time is specially limited for making a complaint for any summary offence in the statute relating to the offence, the complaint shall be made within three months from the time when the matter of the complaint arose; or, if it arose upon the high seas, then within three months after the arrival of the vessel at her port of discharge in the State.

(2) Notwithstanding anything in subsection (1) of this section contained, the complaint shall be made within six months from the time when the matter of the complaint arose in the case of the following summary offences—

(a)larceny or stealing;

(b)attempting to commit larceny or to steal;

(c)aiding or abetting or counselling or procuring the commission of larceny or stealing;

(d)receiving;

(e)unlawful possession;

(f)obtaining anything, including credit, by false pretences or fraud;

(g)fraudulent breach of trust.