Section 146

Subject to any special provisions of this Act, neither a conviction for an offence nor an order for payment of money shall be made under this Act in any proceeding instituted in a District Court or a Magistrate’s Court in Singapore, unless that proceeding is commenced within 3 years after the commission of the offence or after the cause of complaint arises, as the case may be; or if both or either of the parties to the proceeding happen during that time to be out of Singapore, unless the proceeding is commenced, in the case of a conviction within 2 months, and in the case of an order within 6 months, after they both first happen to arrive or to be at one time in Singapore.

No written law for the time being in force which limits the time within which proceedings may be instituted in a District Court or a Magistrate’s Court shall affect any proceedings under this Act.[127