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Parole Act 2002

New Zealand Parole Board and amendments to other enactments relating to parole and release generally - Summoning witnesses

118A: Power to summon witnesses

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"The person in charge can ask you to come to a meeting to share information and bring relevant things with you."

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The person in charge of a meeting, called the chairperson or panel convenor, can ask someone to come and give evidence. You might be asked to bring some things with you, like papers or documents, that are relevant to what is being discussed. The chairperson or panel convenor can only ask you to do this if they think it is necessary, not because someone else has asked them to. You do not have to go and give evidence unless you are given some money to cover your expenses, like travel costs, according to the rules set out in the Criminal Procedure Act 2011. If you are asked to go and give evidence, you will be given a written summons that tells you where and when to go.

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Part 2New Zealand Parole Board and amendments to other enactments relating to parole and release generally
Summoning witnesses

118APower to summon witnesses

  1. The chairperson or a panel convenor may, for the purposes of any matter before the Board, issue a summons requiring any person to—

  2. attend and give evidence; and
    1. produce any books, papers, documents, records, or things in the person's possession or control that are relevant to the subject of the matter before the Board.

      1. The chairperson or panel convenor may not exercise the power conferred by subsection (1) on the basis of an application or request, but may do so only on his or her own initiative.

      2. A witness is not required to attend and give evidence or produce any things in accordance with a summons issued under subsection (1) unless, at the time of the service of the summons or at some other reasonable time before the day on which the attendance of the witness would, apart from this subsection, be required, there is tendered or paid to the witness a sum in respect of the witness's allowances and travelling expenses in accordance with the scale prescribed for the time being by regulations made under the Criminal Procedure Act 2011.

      3. The summons must be in writing and state the place and time at which the witness is required to attend.

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      Notes
      • Section 118A: inserted, on , by section 71 of the Parole Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 28).
      • Section 118A(3): amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).