Clause 125

Subject to any special provisions of this Ordinance, neither a conviction for an offence nor an order for payment of money shall be made under this Ordinance in any proceeding instituted in a District Court or a Magistrate’s Court in Singapore, unless that proceeding is commenced within six months 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 same is commenced, in the case of a conviction within two months, and in the case of an order within six 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 Ordinance.