Jersey Law 32/1991

SOCIAL SECURITY (AMENDMENT No.8) (JERSEY) LAW 1991

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A LAW           to amend further the Social Security (Jersey) Law 1974 with respect to prosecutions, sanctioned by Order of the Counsellors of State in Council of the

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16th day of OCTOBER 1991

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(Registered on the 29th day of November 1991)

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STATES OF JERSEY

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The 21st day of May 1991

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THE STATES, subject to the sanction of Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council, have adopted the following Law –

ARTICLE 1

In Article 37 of the Social Security (Jersey) Law 19741 for paragraph (1) there shall be substituted the following paragraph –

“(1)     Notwithstanding any enactment or rule of law to the contrary, the period within which proceedings may be taken against any person for an offence against this Law shall be a year and a day from the date on which evidence, sufficient in the opinion of the Attorney General to justify the proceedings, comes to the knowledge of the Committee or, where the person in question was outside the Bailiwick at that date, within the period of a year and a day from the date on which he first lands in the Bailiwick thereafter, whichever of the said periods last expires.”

ARTICLE 2

This Law may be cited as the Social Security (Amendment No. 8) (Jersey) Law 1991.

C.M. NEWCOMBE

Deputy Greffier of the States.