(1) Where no time is prescribed for making a complaint with respect to any summary offence by the enactment relating to such offence, the complaint—
(a) shall be made within 6 months from the time when the matter of the complaint arose; or
(b) if it arose upon the high seas shall be made within the 6 months after the arrival of the ship or vessel in this State; or
(c) in the case of a continuous contravention, shall be made within 6 months, from the last date of such contravention and it shall be competent in such case in any prosecution to include the entire period during which the contravention has occurred.
(Amended by Act 11 of 2008)
(2) For the removal of doubt and despite any other provisions to the contrary there shall be no period of limitation in relation to any of the following offences—
(a) rape or any other sexual offence;
(b) any sexual offence involving a minor;
(c) murder.