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Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009

Enforcement - Offences - Offences relating to cross-border transportation of cash

113: Chief executive of New Zealand Customs Service may deal with cash reporting offences

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"Paying a fine for not reporting cash at the border"

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You can break the law if you do not report cash when taking it across New Zealand's borders. If you admit to this and ask the chief executive of the New Zealand Customs Service to deal with it, they might let you pay a fine. The chief executive can accept up to $500 if they think it is fair. You do not have to go to court if you pay this fine. The chief executive's decision means you will not be prosecuted for this offence. This only happens if you pay the fine before any court documents are filed. If the chief executive of the New Zealand Customs Service accepts your payment, you will not have to pay any more fines for this offence, as stated in section 112. You can find more information about this in section 106 and 107. The chief executive makes this decision based on the circumstances of your case.

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Part 3Enforcement
Offences: Offences relating to cross-border transportation of cash

113Chief executive of New Zealand Customs Service may deal with cash reporting offences

  1. This section applies if, in any case to which section 106 or 107 applies, a person admits in writing that he or she has committed the offence and requests that the offence be dealt with summarily by the chief executive of the New Zealand Customs Service.

  2. If this section applies, the chief executive of the New Zealand Customs Service may, at any time before a charging document has been filed in respect of the offence, accept from that person a sum, not exceeding $500, that the chief executive of the New Zealand Customs Service thinks just in the circumstances of the case, in full satisfaction of any fine to which the person would otherwise be liable under section 112.

  3. If the chief executive of the New Zealand Customs Service accepts any sum under this section, the offender is not liable to be prosecuted for the offence in respect of which the payment was made.

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Notes
  • Section 113(2): amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).