GENERAL PART
CHAPTER V
GROUNDS FOR EXEMPTION FROM CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY

Statutes of Limitations

Section 26
(1) Save where Subsections (2)-(3) apply, and unless otherwise provided for by the Act on the Exclusion of Statutes of Limitation for Certain Crimes, prosecution is barred upon the lapse of time equal to the maximum penalty prescribed, or after not less than five years.
(2) In connection with voluntary manslaughter, intentional grievous bodily injury punishable by imprisonment of more than three years, kidnapping, trafficking in human beings, illegal restraint, including criminal offense against sexual freedom and sexual offenses - if at the time when the crime was committed the victim is under the age of eighteen years, and prosecution of the crime is statute barred before the perpetrator’s twenty-third birthday - the limitation period is extended until the time the victim reaches the age twenty-three years, or until the time that such person would have reached the age of twenty-three years.
(3) No statute of limitations applies to the crimes defined in Chapters XIII and XIV, and to crimes which carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
Section 27
The first day of the period of limitation is:
a) in case of a completed criminal act, the day when the crime is actually committed;
b) in case of attempt and preparation, the day when the act resulting in consequence is carried
out;
c) in case of an act that is considered a criminal offense only if relates to a breach of duty, the last day that of which the perpetrator has to discharge his duty without the consequences set out in this Act;
d) in case of criminal offenses which manifests in the maintenance of an infringement, on the day when the infringement ceases to exist.
Section 28
(1) The statute of limitation shall be interrupted by any action of the court, the public prosecutor, the investigating authorities, or - in international cases - by the minister in charge of the judicial system or the competent foreign authority taken against the perpetrator in connection with the crime. The period of limitation shall restart on the day of the interruption.
(2) If the criminal proceedings are suspended, the period of suspension shall not be included in the period of limitation. This provision shall not apply where criminal proceedings are suspended if the investigation failed to turn up evidence as to the perpetrator’s identity, and if the perpetrator cannot be located or has become mentally ill.
(3) When a criminal proceeding is postponed or suspended on the grounds of exemption stemming from holding a public office, and by virtue of the fact that the immunity granted by law was not suspended by the body having powers to do so, the period of time of such delay shall not be included in the period of limitation. This provision shall not apply to criminal cases under private prosecution, where the case is presented by the private prosecutor.
(4) The period of deferral of prosecution, in the case of a conditional sentence, the period of probation and the period of work performed in reparation shall not be included in the period of limitation.

BASIC
(U) Article

(6) The criminal offenses of Serious crimes against Hungary or persons committed in the name, on behalf of or with the consent of the party state in the communist dictatorship, which were not prosecuted for political reasons in disregard of the criminal law in force at the time of the commission, shall not be considered time-barred.
(7) The criminal offense under subsection (6) shall expire after the expiry of the period from the date of entry into force of the Basic Law under the criminal law in force at the time of the offense, provided that the statute of limitations expires on 1 May 1990.
(8) The criminal offense of an offense under subsection (6) shall lapse after the period between the date of commission and 1 May 1990, the date of entry into force of the Basic Law, provided that the statute of limitations is 2 May 1990. would have taken place between 31 December 2011 and 31 December 2011 and the perpetrator was not prosecuted for the offense.