This part of the law used to talk about when you could use certain types of private conversations as evidence. However, this rule doesn’t exist anymore. It was removed from the Crimes Act 1961 on 18 April 2012. The rule that replaced it is now in a different law called the Search and Surveillance Act 2012.
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View the original legislation for this page at https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1986/0120/latest/link.aspx?id=DLM330998.
312M: Inadmissibility of evidence of private communications unlawfully intercepted, or
“You can't use secretly recorded private conversations as proof in court if they were recorded illegally.”
312O: Privileged evidence, or
“This rule used to protect certain information from being used in court, but it no longer applies.”
