Hometime

Hometime · Alberta legislation

RTA Residential Tenancies Act

RTA · Consumer Protection Act

Part 14 — Remedies and Enforcement

167 Time limit for prosecution

Current to 2026-07-14 · Official PDF

(1) Subject to subsection (2), a prosecution of an offence
under this Act or the regulations shall not be commenced more than
3 years after the day on which the offence was committed.
(2) Where an offence was committed in the course of a consumer
transaction or an attempt to enter into a consumer transaction, a
prosecution may be commenced within 3 years after the day the
consumer first knew or ought to have known of the offence but not
more than 8 years after the day on which the offence was
committed.
RSA 2000 cF-2 s167;2012 c7 s1