When the examining magistrate challenges the merits of a request by the parties to establish that the public prosecution is time-barred, he or she must make a reasoned order within one month of receiving the request. The provisions of the penultimate and last paragraphs of Article 81 shall apply.
On pain of inadmissibility, a person claiming that the public prosecution was time-barred at the time of his indictment or his first hearing as an assisted witness must make his application within six months of that act.