http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/3/section/37/2008-08-01Vehicles (Crime) Act 2001An Act to regulate motor salvage operators and registration plate suppliers; to make further provision for preventing or detecting vehicle crime; to enable the Secretary of State to make payments in respect of certain expenditure relating to vehicle crime; and for connected purposes.2001-05-26texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2018-09-20Expert Participation2008-08-01Part 3 OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING TO VEHICLE CRIME Miscellaneous
37 Taking a conveyance without authority: extension of prosecution time-limits(1)

After section 12(4) of the Theft Act 1968 (c.60) (offence of taking a conveyance without authority) there shall be inserted—(4A)

Proceedings for an offence under subsection (1) above (but not proceedings of a kind falling within subsection (4) above) in relation to a mechanically propelled vehicle—

(a)

shall not be commenced after the end of the period of three years beginning with the day on which the offence was committed; but

(b)

subject to that, may be commenced at any time within the period of six months beginning with the relevant day.

(4B)

In subsection (4A)(b) above “the relevant day” means—

(a)

in the case of a prosecution for an offence under subsection (1) above by a public prosecutor, the day on which sufficient evidence to justify the proceedings came to the knowledge of any person responsible for deciding whether to commence any such prosecution;

(b)

in the case of a prosecution for an offence under subsection (1) above which is commenced by a person other than a public prosecutor after the discontinuance of a prosecution falling within paragraph (a) above which relates to the same facts, the day on which sufficient evidence to justify the proceedings came to the knowledge of the person who has decided to commence the prosecution or (if later) the discontinuance of the other prosecution;

(c)

in the case of any other prosecution for an offence under subsection (1) above, the day on which sufficient evidence to justify the proceedings came to the knowledge of the person who has decided to commence the prosecution.

(4C)

For the purposes of subsection (4A)(b) above a certificate of a person responsible for deciding whether to commence a prosecution of a kind mentioned in subsection (4B)(a) above as to the date on which such evidence as is mentioned in the certificate came to the knowledge of any person responsible for deciding whether to commence any such prosecution shall be conclusive evidence of that fact.

(2)

Subsection (1) applies in relation to offences committed on or after the day appointed for the purposes of this section by an order under section 44.

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