Justices of the Peace Act Amendment Act 1867
Justices of the Peace Act Amendment Act 1867
Justices of the Peace Act Amendment Act 1867
Justices of the Peace Act Amendment Act 1867
Public Act |
1867 No 11 |
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Date of assent |
10 October 1867 |
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Contents
An Act to amend “The Justices of the Peace Act 1866”
and “The Justices of the Peace Acts Repeal Act 1866.”
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows—
1 Short Title.
The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Justices of the Peace Act Amendment Act 1867.”
2 Sub-section 4 of Section 87 of “The Justices of the Peace Act 1866”
repealed.
New sub-section to be substituted.
The fourth sub-section of the eighty-seventh section of “The Justices of the Peace Act 1866”
is hereby repealed and it is hereby enacted that in lieu of the said fourth sub-section there shall be substituted in the said section as the fourth sub-section thereof the words following and the said Act shall be construed and read accordingly that is to say—
(4.)
When such justice shall be satisfied by evidence upon oath that the person from whom security is sought hath threatened to do or to procure some other person to do any act which would if done be punishable as an offence under any of the Acts or parts of Acts following—
An Act passed or intended to be passed in the present session of the General Assembly the Short Title whereof is “The Malicious Injuries to Property Act 1867”
An Act passed or intended to be passed in the present session of the General Assembly the Short Title whereof is “The Offences against the Person Act 1867”
Sections 35 36 38.
An Act passed or intended to be passed in the present session of the General Assembly the Short Title whereof is “The Marine Act 1867”
sections thirty-five thirty-six and thirty-eight
and such justice shall be of opinion that there is just cause for fear that the person so threatening will if not prevented carry such threat into execution.
3 In “The Justices of the Peace Acts Repeal Act 1866”
the words “under this Act”
erased and “The Justices of the Peace Act 1866”
inserted in lieu thereof.
The words “under this Act”
where they occur at the end of the second section of “The Justices of the Peace Acts Repeal Act 1866”
hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”
shall be erased and in lieu thereof there shall be inserted the words “The Justices of the Peace Act 1866”
and “the said Act”
shall be construed and read as if such words had originally been so inserted in the said section of “the said Act.”