Section 39D: No offence committed
This section is inserted by COVID-19 (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2020, section 28.
consolidated text (as at 2016, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
39D. No offence committed
Where, under an enactment, a time is imposed on a person to do or
refrain from doing an act or thing and the time for doing or refraining from doing
the act or thing expires, or falls wholly or partly during, the COVID-19 period, that
person shall, notwithstanding that enactment, be deemed not to have committed
an offence where he failed to do or refrained from doing the act or thing, provided
that the act or thing is done not later than such period as may be prescribed by
regulations under that enactment.