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Sentencing Act 2002

Sentences, orders, and related matters - Discharge and miscellaneous orders - Instrument forfeiture orders

142G: Independent valuation of property

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"Getting an expert to say how much something is worth for a fair court decision"

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When a court is working out the value of something that was used in a crime, it can ask for an independent valuation. This means the court can get an expert to say how much the property is worth. You or the other people involved in the case can ask the court to do this, or the court can decide to do it on its own. The court wants to know the value of the property or a part of it, so it can make a fair decision.

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Part 2Sentences, orders, and related matters
Discharge and miscellaneous orders: Instrument forfeiture orders

142GIndependent valuation of property

  1. For the purposes of determining the value of an instrument of crime, a court may, at its own discretion or at the request of either party to the proceedings or any person who claims to have an interest in the property, seek an independent valuation as to the value of the property or any interest in the property.

Notes
  • Section 142G: inserted, on , by section 10 of the Sentencing Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 10).