C-25.1 - Code of Penal Procedure

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388. The rules governing the prescription of penal proceedings provided in this Code or under the Act respecting the implementation of certain provisions of the Code of Penal Procedure and amending various legislative provisions (1992, chapter 61) apply even to an offence committed before 1 November 1993, unless the proceedings have already been instituted.
However, penal proceedings which, on 1 November 1993 or within the following six months, would have been prescribed under a provision amended, replaced or repealed by the Act respecting the implementation of certain provisions of the Code of Penal Procedure and amending various legislative provisions remain subject to the prescription period provided in such provision.
1992, c. 61, s. 25.