Police Act (Cap. 164), article 47

47. The period of prescription in respect of the criminal action against the protected witness ar ising from the fact referred to in article 46 shall be suspended from the date that the Attorney General d ecides that the witness shall be deemed to be a protected witness, and shall continue from the day on which the last proceedings in which he is a witness for the purposes o f the programme becomes res judicata. Protection under programme.