F-4.1 - Forest Act

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186.15. Subject to the second paragraph, all penal proceedings must be instituted within three years of the commission of the offence.
Penal proceedings instituted under a provision of section 186.7 must be instituted within two years from the date of the opening of the inquiry leading to the proceedings. However, no penal proceedings may be instituted if more than five years have elapsed since the date of commission of the offence.
A statement by the Minister as to the day on which the inquiry was opened constitutes, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, conclusive proof of the date on which it commenced.
2001, c. 6, s. 122.