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Summary Proceedings Amendment Act 1981

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Provisions on determination of appeal where defendant sentenced to periodic detention

Summary Proceedings Amendment Act 1981

Public Act		1981 No 96
Date of assent		22 October 1981

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Provisions on determination of appeal where defendant sentenced to periodic detention
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Summary Proceedings Act 1957

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 Summary Proceedings Amendment Act 1981, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Summary Proceedings Act 1957 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Provisions on determination of appeal where defendant sentenced to periodic detention

Section 137a of the principal Act (as inserted by section 18 of the Summary Proceedings Amendment Act 1973) is hereby amended by inserting, after subsection (1), the following subsection:

“(1a)

In any case to which subsection (1) of this section applies, the order made under section 16(2) of the Criminal Justice Amendment Act 1962 by the Court that imposed the sentence of periodic detention shall continue in force according to its tenor, except that the Court that determines the appeal or, as the case may require, the District Court Judge or Justice or Justices or Registrar referred to in subsection (1) of this section shall specify the day and time at which the offender is required to report to the work centre on the first occasion thereafter.”

This Act is administered in the Department of Justice.

Summary Proceedings Amendment Act 1981