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If one go only by the wordings in section 18 there is no time limit prescribed for preferring a complaint. But such a view is not commensurate with normal legal juripurudence. There has to be a time limit for everything concerned with judicial proceedings. One cannot allow someone to prefer a complaint after 10 years on a plea that there is no time limit prescribed. If 6 months is condoned why not 10 years or even 20 years However by reading in between the lines the time limit is conspicuous. Section 18 lays down that "Subject to the provisions of this Act, it shall be.......... This imply that other provisions of the act concerning same matter is applicable in the case of Section 18 also. Indirectly it imply that stipulation of time limit prescribed in Section 19(3) is equally applicable to Section 18 .Anyway that is how I interpret this Section.