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Sorru if you thought that was what I intended. Not at all I am a provincial offences officer and am used to applying the law. As a matter of interest I researched the statute of limitations on RTA offences and found this:
Road Traffic Offenders Act
Section 1 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 [7] requires a Notice of Intended Prosecution (NIP) to be served within 14 days of applicable offences being committed; if that does not occur, it may follow that any further action may be prevented. However, there are exceptions to the 14 day rule: if the alleged offence was committed in a company car or the car was not being driven by the registered keeper of the vehicle are all examples of exception to that day to allow the police to make appropriate investigations. The date of the offence is excluded.
The onus is on the body issuing the Notice of Intended Prosecution (NIP) to ensure the Notice is served within 14 days. The definition of "served" has changed. Prior to 1994, NIPs were served by registered or recorded post, but in 1994, the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 was amended to allow for standard postal delivery. Several successful defences to a NIP have been conducted on the production of the envelope that contained the NIP in which the postmark on the envelope indicated to a court that the NIP could not have been received (served) within the 14 day limit.
Representation of the People Act
Section 176 of the Representation of the People Act 1986, [8] requires that proceedings for any offence within the act begin within one year of the offence being committed.
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