{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:47","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Suspension of Limitation on Bringing Prosecutions","number":"47","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/47/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART I — THE GENERAL PART","book":"BOOK I — OFFENCES AND THE OFFENDER","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 8. — Limitations on Prosecutions"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"The period of limitation shall be suspended so long as criminal prosecution cannot commence and continue under the law.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/47/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":52,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/52/?article=47&paragraph=p1#article-47-p1"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"Where the preferring of charges is required for criminal prosecution, lack of such complaint shall not suspend the period of limitation.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/47/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":52,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/52/?article=47&paragraph=p2#article-47-p2"}]}],"caution":"English-language 2015 Ministry of Justice edition. Refworld catalogues this English expression as an unofficial translation; Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation."}