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Parole Act 2002

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

118D: Offences

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"Breaking Parole Board rules can lead to big fines"

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If you are summoned to attend a Parole Board meeting to give evidence or produce documents, you must go. You can be in trouble if you do not attend, or if you refuse to answer questions or produce documents when you are there. If you break this rule, you can be fined up to $10,000 when you are convicted. You might be asked to give evidence or produce documents like books or papers. You must do what the Parole Board asks you to do, or you might be in trouble.

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

118DOffences

  1. Every person commits an offence who, after being summoned to attend to give evidence before the Board or to produce to it any books, papers, documents, records, or things, without sufficient cause,—

  2. fails to attend in accordance with the summons; or
    1. refuses to be sworn or to give evidence, or having been sworn refuses to answer any question that the person is lawfully required by any member of the Board to answer concerning the subject of the matter before the Board; or
      1. fails to produce any such book, paper, document, record, or thing.

        1. Every person who commits an offence against this section is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000.

        Compare
        • 1908 No 25 s 9
        Notes
        • Section 118D: inserted, on , by section 71 of the Parole Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 28).
        • Section 118D(2): amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).