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Crimes Act 1961

Procedure - Filing indictment

345C: Trial Judge may excuse disclosure of information relating to Police investigations

You could also call this:

“The judge can decide not to share information about how the police did their work.”

This part of the law used to let a judge in a trial keep some information about police investigations secret. However, this rule no longer exists. It was removed from the law on 1 July 2013. This means that judges can’t use this specific rule anymore to hide information about police investigations during a trial.

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View the original legislation for this page at https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1986/0120/latest/link.aspx?id=DLM331471.

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Part 12 Procedure
Filing indictment

345CTrial Judge may excuse disclosure of information relating to Police investigations (Repealed)

    Notes
    • Section 345C: repealed, on , by section 6 of the Crimes Amendment Act (No 4) 2011 (2011 No 85).