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Wildlife Act 1953

General provisions - Offences and penalties

68: Conduct of proceedings and recovery of fines

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"What happens if you break a wildlife rule and have to go to court"

If you break a rule in the Wildlife Act 1953, you might have to go to court. Any officer or servant of the Department, and any fish and game ranger, can be the person who prosecutes you in court. You can be fined if you are found guilty of an offence against this Act. The court can decide that some of the fine money should go to the person who helped catch you, as long as that person is not a government employee doing their job. The court's decision about who gets some of the fine money will be written in a separate order, not with the conviction.

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Part 5General provisions
Offences and penalties

68Conduct of proceedings and recovery of fines

  1. Repealed

  2. Any officer or servant of the Department, and any fish and game ranger, may appear and conduct the prosecution in all proceedings for offences against this Act.

  3. The court by which any person is convicted of any such offence may direct that any part, not exceeding half, of any fine recovered under this Act shall be paid to any person instrumental in securing the conviction in respect of which the fine is imposed (not being a person in the employment of the Crown acting in the course of his official duties), and that part of the fine shall be paid to that person by the Registrar of the court in which the conviction is recorded.

  4. Any direction of the court under subsection (3) shall not be entered in the conviction, but shall form the subject matter of a separate order.

Compare
  • 1921–22 No 57 s 42
Notes
  • Section 68 heading: replaced, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).
  • Section 68(1): repealed, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).
  • Section 68(2): amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).
  • Section 68(2): amended, on , by section 6 of the Wildlife Amendment Act 1994 (1994 No 109).