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Sentencing Act 2002

Sentences, orders, and related matters - Miscellaneous, transitional, and savings provisions - Miscellaneous provisions

146A: A certificate of conviction for succession purposes

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"A court certificate to confirm someone is guilty of unlawfully killing another person."

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If you are found guilty of unlawfully killing someone, the court can give a special certificate. This certificate is for the purposes of the Succession (Homicide) Act 2007. The certificate says you are guilty of homicide, which means unlawfully killing someone. The court can give this certificate when you are sentenced, or at any time after that. You, or someone interested in the case, can ask the court for this certificate, or the court can decide to give it on its own.

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Part 2Sentences, orders, and related matters
Miscellaneous, transitional, and savings provisions: Miscellaneous provisions

146AA certificate of conviction for succession purposes

  1. On or at any time after sentencing a person for an offence against any Act of unlawfully killing another person or child that has not become a person, a court may certify that for the purposes of the Succession (Homicide) Act 2007 the person convicted is guilty of homicide of that other person or child that has not become a person.

  2. A court may issue a certificate under this section on the application of the prosecutor, any interested person, or on its own initiative.

Notes
  • Section 146A: inserted, on , by section 17 of the Succession (Homicide) Act 2007 (2007 No 95).
  • Section 146A(2): amended, on , by section 7 of the Sentencing Amendment Act (No 2) 2011 (2011 No 93).