Cook Islands Amendment Act (No 2) 1948
Cook Islands Amendment Act (No 2) 1948
Cook Islands Amendment Act (No 2) 1948
Cook Islands Amendment Act (No 2) 1948
Public Act |
1948 No 25 |
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Date of assent |
29 October 1948 |
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An Act to Amend the Cook Islands Act, 1915.
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.
This Act may be cited as the Cook Islands Amendment Act (No. 2), 1948, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Cook Islands Act, 1915 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2 Principal Act amended.
The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after section two hundred and forty-one, the following new sections:—
“241a
Every one is liable to five years’ imprisonment with hard labour who unlawfully enters or is in any dwellinghouse by night with intent to commit a criminal offence therein, or who is found by night in any dwellinghouse without lawful justification for his presence there.
Compare: Samoa Act, 1921, s. 171; see Reprint of Statutes, Vol. II, p. 829
“241b
Threats to kill or do bodily harm.
Every one is liable to five years’ imprisonment with hard labour who sends or causes to be received, knowing the contents thereof, any letter or writing containing threats to kill or do bodily harm to any person, or who verbally makes a threat to kill or do bodily harm to any person.”
Compare: Samoa Act, 1921, s. 173; see Reprint of Statutes, Vol. II, p. 829
3 Removing limit of maintenance orders.
(1)
Section five hundred and thirty-seven of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection one the words “not exceeding one pound a week”
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(2)
Section five hundred and sixty-four of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection two the words “No such payment shall, except where otherwise expressly provided, exceed the sum of twenty shillings per week, and”
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