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C-25.1 - Code of Penal Procedure

Section 218
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218. The trial of proceedings cannot be continued where more than one year has elapsed from the date of suspension of proceedings.
A defendant cannot be prosecuted a second time for an offence for which proceedings were suspended and not continued or for an offence resulting from the same facts or the same event.
1987, c. 96, a. 218.
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