Criminal Code Act 1899

Repealed section 212 is taken always to have applied as if the limitation provision of the section were not, and had never been, in force.

To remove any doubt, it is declared that any immunity from prosecution acquired because of the limitation provision of repealed section 212 is abolished.

In this section—1989 amendment means the Criminal Code, Evidence Act and Other Acts Amendment Act 1989, section 13.limitation provision, of repealed section 212, means the provision of repealed section 212 that limited the period within which a prosecution for either of the offences defined in the section must be begun.repealed section 212 means section 212 as in force from time to time before the commencement of the 1989 amendment. sch 1 pt 9 ch 102 ch div 1 s 744 ins 2020 No. 32 s 21