Section 4: Limitation of time for proceedings.

Notwithstanding the provisions of any written law which prescribes a time within which proceedings may be brought before a court, proceedings in respect of an offence under section 3 of this Act may be instituted-(a) within a period of six months from the date of the commission of the alleged offence; or
(b) within a period which exceeds neither six months from the date on which it came to the knowledge of the prosecutor that the offence had been committed nor one year from the date of the commission of the offence,
whichever period is the longer.