. 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 (2) The bringing of charges in a case which is subsequently dismissed without prejudice or the charges are withdrawn, does not interrupt the period of limitation.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 However, the period is not interrupted if the order is withdrawn, an objection is lodged to the order, or the suspect or complainant withdraws his or her consent referred to in section 4 or 5 of said Act.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.

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