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Chapter XXXVI of the Code of Criminal procedure 1973 not to apply to certain offences. SCHEDULE. ***** STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS Act 10 of 1982.- Under the provisions of chapter 36 of the Code of Criminal Procedure 1973, a limitation period of six months from the date of commencement of offence has been prescribed for launching prosecution. In a majority of cases under the Acts mentioned in the schedule to the Bill the offences are detected at the time of assessment of tax by which the period of limitation would have expired. The Government of India have enacted the "Economic offences (Inapplicability of Limitation) Act 1974 (Act 12 of 1974) with effect from 1st April 1974 to provide for the inapplicability of the provisions of chapter XXXVI of the Code of Criminal Procedure to certain Economic offences. Similarly the present Bill provides for the inapplicability of the provisions of chapter XXXVI of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, to economic offences punishable under the enactment specified in the schedule to the Bill. (Published in the Karnataka Gazette (Extraordinary) Part IV-2A dated 3-2-1981, as No. 100) ***** 2 KARNATAKA ACT No. 10 of 1982. (First published in the Karnataka Gazette Extraordinary on the Twenty-ninth day of March, 1982) THE KARNATAKA ECONOMIC OFFENCES (INAPPLICABILITY OF LIMITATION) ACT, 1981. (Received the assent of the President on the Twelfth day of March, 1982) BE it enacted by the Karnataka State Legislature in the Thirty-second year of the Republic of India as follows:-