Summary Proceedings Amendment Act (No. 2) 1982
Summary Proceedings Amendment Act (No. 2) 1982
Summary Proceedings Amendment Act (No. 2) 1982
Summary Proceedings Amendment Act (No. 2) 1982
Public Act |
1982 No 131 |
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Date of assent |
16 December 1982 |
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Contents
An Act to amend the Summary Proceedings Act 1957 in relation to misconduct during preliminary hearings, and to contempt of Court
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 and commencement
(1)
This Act may be cited as the Summary Proceedings Amendment Act (No. 2) 1982, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Summary Proceedings Act 1957 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
(2)
This Act shall come into force on the 28th day after the date on which it receives the Governor-General’s assent.
2 Preliminary hearing to take place in presence of defendant
The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing section 158, and substituting the following section:
“158
“(1)
Except as provided in sections 173a, 174, and 175 of this Act, the defendant shall be entitled to be present in Court during the whole of the preliminary hearing, unless he misconducts himself by so interrupting the proceedings as to render their continuance in his presence impracticable.
“(2)
The Court may permit the defendant to be out of Court during the whole or any part of the preliminary hearing on such terms as it thinks fit.”
3 Penalty for contempt of Court
Section 206 of the principal Act is hereby amended—
(a)
By omitting the expression “10 days”
, and substituting the expression “3 months”
:
(b)
By omitting the expression “S150”
(as substituted by section 24 of the Summary Proceedings Amendment Act 1980), and substituting the expression “$1,000”
.
This Act is administered in the Department of Justice.