Coast Guard Act : Period of limitation for trial of offences under the Act. Indian Bare Acts :

Coast Guard Act ,1978

Act No : 30

Section : Period of limitation for trial of offences under the Act.

51. Period of limitation for trial of offences under the Act. (1) No person unless he is an offender who has avoided apprehension or escaped arrest or committed the offence of desertion or of giving false entry on enrolment or the offence of mutiny shall be tried or punished in pursuance of this Act for any offence committed by him unless such trial commences within three years from the commission of such offence. (2) No trial for an offence of desertion or of giving false entry on enrolment shall be commenced if the person in question, not being an officer, has subsequent to the commission of the offence served continuously in an exemplary manner for not less than three years in the Coast Guard.