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dering, aggravated pandering, trafficking in persons and aggravated trafficking
person, directed at a person below the age of eighteen years. In the case of enticement of a child for sexual purposes referred to in Chapter 20, section 8(b), the
right to bring charges becomes time-barred when the person who was the object
of the offence reaches the age of twenty-three years (540/2011)
Section 2 – Beginning of the period of limitation (297/2003)
(1) The periods mentioned above in section 1 are calculated from the day of the
commission of the offence. If the essential elements of the offence provide for the
criminalization of omission, the period for the bringing of charges begins to run
when the omitted act should at the latest have been committed. If the essential
elements of the offence require that a certain consequence be brought about, the
period is calculated from the date said consequence appears.
(2) If the criminal act involves the maintenance of an unlawful condition, the period during which the right to bring charges becomes time-barred does not begin
until such condition ends.
(3) The period for the bringing of charges for complicity in an offence begins to
run on the same date as the period for the bringing of charges for the principal
act.
Section 3 – Interruption of the period of limitation (297/2003)
(1) Charges are deemed to have been brought in a manner interrupting the period
of limitation when the person to be prosecuted as been given lawful notice of the
summons or a request for his or her punishment has been made when he or she
is personally present at a trial.
(2) The bringing of charges in a case which is subsequently dismissed without
prejudice or the charges are withdrawn, does not interrupt the period of limitation.
(3) When a violation is considered in accordance with the procedure provided by
the Fine and Summary Penal Fee Act, the period during which the right to bring
charges is interrupted when service is given to the suspect of the order for a fine,
an order for a summary penal fee subject to objection, or the order for punishment. However, the period is not interrupted if the order is withdrawn, an objection is lodged to the order, or the suspect or complainant withdraws his or her
consent referred to in section 4 or 5 of said Act. (755/2010)
Section 3(a) – Interruption of the period of limitation on the basis of a
judgment proposal (673/2014)
(1) If the period of limitation has not already been interrupted on the basis of section 3, the period of limitation is interrupted when the person suspected of an
offence or the defendant in a criminal case signs a judgment proposal referred to
in Chapter 1, section 19 of the Criminal Procedure Act.