CRIMINAL LAW CONSOLIDATION ACT 1935 - SECT 8

CRIMINAL LAW CONSOLIDATION ACT 1935 - SECT 8

8—Time within which prosecution shall be commenced and warrant issued

        (1)         No person shall be prosecuted under section 7 in respect of any compassings, imaginations, inventions, devices or intentions which are expressed, uttered or declared by open and advised speaking only, unless—

            (a)         information of the compassings, imaginations, inventions, devices or intentions and of the words by which they were expressed, uttered or declared is given on oath to a justice within six days after the words were spoken; and

            (b)         a warrant for the apprehension of the person by whom the words were spoken is issued within ten days after that information was given.

        (2)         No person shall be convicted of any such compassings, imaginations, inventions, devices or intentions which are expressed, uttered or declared by open or advised speaking except on his own confession in open court or unless the words so spoken are proved by two credible witnesses.