Key legal question
Whether prosecution of the gambling-offence conduct was time-barred.
Extracted holding
The prosecution was not time-barred because the limitation period for the ordinance offence was extended under Art. 333(6)(b) SCC.
Extracted reasoning
Although the conduct dated from January to March 2007 and Art. 57(2) SBG provides five years for contraventions, the transitional rule in Art. 333(6)(b) SCC extends contravention limitation periods exceeding one year by the ordinary period until the special statutes are adapted; thus the seven-year period for Gambling Act offences also applied here.