Section 313 — Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Act 2001: Informations

313 Informations (1) Despite anything in section 14 of the Summary Proceedings Act 1957 or in any other Act, any information in respect of any offence against this Act, or against any regulations made under this Act, may be laid at any time within 5 years after the termination of the year in which the offence was committed. (2) An information may charge the defendant with any number of offences against this Act (whether arising under this section or otherwise) or against any regulations made under this Act. (3) An information that charges more than 1 such offence must set out separately the particulars of each offence charged. (4) Multiple charges must be heard together unless the court, either before or at any time during the hearing, considers it just that any charge should be heard separately and makes an order to that effect. Compare: 1998 No 114 s 379