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Regional Planning Interests Act 2014
sec.83Proceeding for summary offences
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### sec.83 Proceeding for summary offences
A proceeding for a summary offence against this Act must start within the later of the following periods to end—
1 year after the commission of the offence;
within 1 year after the offence comes to the complainant’s knowledge, but within 5 years after the offence is committed.
For subsection (1) , an offence under part 2 does not come to the complainant’s knowledge merely because the complainant receives a remotely sensed image that may provide evidence of the offence.
In this section—
remotely sensed image means information acquired about an object or phenomenon without making physical contact with it.
an image obtained by using aerial sensor technology to detect or classify the object or phenomenon by way of electromagnetic radiation emitted from aircraft or satellites or other propagated signals
(sec.83-ssec.1) A proceeding for a summary offence against this Act must start within the later of the following periods to end— 1 year after the commission of the offence; within 1 year after the offence comes to the complainant’s knowledge, but within 5 years after the offence is committed.
(sec.83-ssec.2) For subsection (1) , an offence under part 2 does not come to the complainant’s knowledge merely because the complainant receives a remotely sensed image that may provide evidence of the offence.
(sec.83-ssec.3) In this section— remotely sensed image means information acquired about an object or phenomenon without making physical contact with it. an image obtained by using aerial sensor technology to detect or classify the object or phenomenon by way of electromagnetic radiation emitted from aircraft or satellites or other propagated signals
- (a) 1 year after the commission of the offence;
- (b) within 1 year after the offence comes to the complainant’s knowledge, but within 5 years after the offence is committed.