PART II – CRIMES

Division IV – Offences against the Person

CHAPTER XIX – MURDER AND MANSLAUGHTER

215. Limitation as to time of death
(1) A person is not deemed to have killed another if the death of that person does not take place within a year and a day of the cause of death.
(2) Such period is reckoned inclusive of the day on which the last unlawful act contributing to the cause of death was done.
(3) When the cause of death is an omission to observe or perform a duty, the period is reckoned inclusive of the day on which the omission ceased.
(4) When the cause of death is in part an unlawful act, and in part an omission to observe or perform a duty, the period is reckoned inclusive of the day on which the last unlawful act was done or the day on which the omission ceased, whichever is the later.

PART VIII – SUMMARY DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS

153. Limitation of time for trial of offences
(1) A person shall not have a charge dealt with summarily for an offence under this Act, other than an offence under sections 72, 73 or 74(1)(a), unless the trial begun within three years after the commission of the offence, subject to subsections (2) and (3).

PART I—PRELIMINARY

International Crimes

7. (1) For the purposes of proceedings for an offence under section 6, the following provisions of the Rome Statute shall apply, with any necessary modifications—

(g) article 29 (which excludes any statute of limit¬ations);