8. Section 18 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following new section substituted therefor: -
| 18. No court shall take cognizance of, or convict a person for, any offence against this Ordinance or any regulation made thereunder, unless complaint thereof has been made within six years of the date on which the offence was committed. In computing the period of six years aforesaid, the time, if any, taken for the purpose of obtaining" the previous sanction of the Commissioner shall be excluded. ". |
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