This page contains different parts of laws about Criminal law.
21A: Cover under Accident Rehabilitation and Compensation Insurance Act 1992 for mental injury caused by certain criminal acts
120: Disentitlement for conviction for murder
122: Disentitlement for certain imprisoned offenders
29: Privilege against self-incrimination
32: Offences
32B: Procedural requirements relating to infringement notices
33: Penalties
33A: Infringement fee
34: Forfeitures
36: Proceedings in relation to offences
242: Failure to provide statement
249: Penalties due to Corporation in respect of overpayments
56A: Security check offences
77I: Offence to fail to comply with Director's requirement to withdraw or revoke authorisation
308: Offence to mislead Corporation
309: Offence not to provide requested information to Corporation
310: Offence not to provide earnings information to Corporation
312: Directors, employees, and officers
313: Charges
314: Summary conviction
315: General fine for offences
Schedule 3: Cover for mental injury caused by certain acts dealt with in Crimes Act 1961
11: Person in business of providing financial service must be registered and member of approved dispute resolution scheme
14: Disqualified person
38: Disclosure of information and reports
40: Offence also committed by director
41: Offence to make false or misleading representation
378A: Order for retrial may be granted if acquittal tainted
378B: Meaning of terms used in sections 378C and 378D
378C: Consent of Solicitor-General required in certain circumstances for exercise of powers in relation to acquitted person
378D: Order for retrial may be granted by Court of Appeal if new and compelling evidence discovered
378E: Orders to safeguard fairness of retrial
378F: Effect of order for retrial
379AB: Appeal against decision of Court of Appeal on appeal against certain orders
381A: Question of law arising out of discharge under section 347 or stay of prosecution may be referred to Court of Appeal
384A: Jurisdiction in certain cases where appeals lie to different courts
413: Enactment creating offence is repealed and replaced or consolidated
414: Repealed enactment continues to have effect
415: Inconsistency with other enactment or rule of law
15: Certain convicted or deported persons not eligible for visa or entry permission to enter or be in New Zealand
16: Certain other persons not eligible for visa or entry permission
83: Grant of limited visa in relation to criminal matters
117: When turnaround ceases to apply to person remanded in custody or imprisoned
139: Minister to decide immigration status of protected person who may have committed certain crimes or been guilty of certain acts
145: Cancellation of New Zealand citizen's recognition as refugee or protected person
156: Deportation liability if visa held under false identity
160: Deportation liability of residence class visa holder if new information as to character becomes available
161: Deportation liability of residence class visa holder convicted of criminal offence
178: Executing deportation order
199: After successful appeal, Minister to decide immigration status of protected person who may have committed certain crimes or been guilty of certain acts
201: Persons who may appeal to Tribunal on facts
205: Special process if refugee or protected person liable for deportation under section 161
294: Information matching to identify immigration status of person sentenced to imprisonment or community-based sentence
296: No Crown liability to third parties for fines enforcement action
305: Disclosure of information overseas
306: Information that may be disclosed under section 305
310: Purpose for which arrest and detention powers may be exercised
315: Person may instead agree to residence and reporting requirements
319: Warrant of commitment
322: Persons detained under warrant of commitment or released on conditions pending making of deportation order
333: Special provisions relating to custody
336: Person being deported must be returned to custody or conditions reimposed if craft not available as planned
342: Provision of false or misleading information
343: Aiding and abetting
344: Obstruction or failing to meet requirements
346: Impersonation
347: Publishing false or misleading information
355: Penalties: general
356: Penalties: carriers, and persons in charge, of craft
357: Penalties: employers
360: Infringement offences
362: When infringement notice may be issued
363: Reminder notices
365: Revocation of infringement notice before payment made
370: Procedural provisions relating to offences
372: Time for filing charging document
431: Deportation liability of residence class visa holder convicted of criminal offence
436: Person subject to residence and reporting requirements under former Act
439: Certain persons deemed liable for arrest and detention under Part 9
442: Detention under former Act without warrant
455: Offences
DB 44: Restitution of stolen property
119: Good faith in relation to protected transactions
147: Power to make bylaws for alcohol control purposes
162: Injunctions restraining commission of offences and breaches of bylaws
165: Seizure of property from private land
175: Power to recover for damage by wilful or negligent behaviour
176: Costs of remedying damage arising from breach of bylaw
212: Interpretation
216: Circumstances when court may make removal order
229: Obstruction of enforcement officers or agents of local authority
231: Offences in relation to notices sent to occupiers or owners
232: Damage to local authority works or property
233: Offence relating to advertising
235: Offences by members of local authorities and local boards
236: Penalty for acting without warrant
237: Offence by member or officer of Remuneration Authority
238: Offence of failing to comply with Act
239: Offences in respect of breaches of bylaws (other than alcohol bans)
240: Defence to offences under this Act
241: Time for filing charging document
242: Penalties for offences
243: Interpretation
244: Proceedings for infringement offences
245: Issue of infringement notices
268: Repeal of Local Government (Prohibition of Liquor in Public Places) Amendment Act 2001
361D: Judge may order trial without jury in certain cases that are likely to be long and complex
361E: Judge may order trial without jury in cases involving intimidation of juror or jurors
45: Court may disqualify holder of aviation document or impose conditions on holding of document
46: Acting without necessary aviation document
46A: Acting without required medical certificate
46B: Fraudulent, misleading, or intentionally false statements to obtain medical certificate
46C: Failure to disclose information required by Director
47: Additional penalty for offences involving commercial gain
48: Applying for aviation document while disqualified
49: Communicating false information or failing to disclose information relevant to granting or holding of aviation document
50: Obstruction of persons duly authorised by Director
51: Trespass
52: Failure to maintain accurate records
52C: Failure to provide identifying information
53: Contravention of emergency rule, prohibition, or condition
54: Security area and security enhanced area offences
55: Personation or obstruction of aviation security officer
56: Communicating false information affecting safety
57: Infringement offences
58: Infringement notices
65: Time for filing charging document
65C: Liability for offences under Summary Offences Act 1981 despite extraterritoriality
65D: Foreign aircraft outside New Zealand
65F: Strict liability for acts endangering safety
65G: Disruptive conduct towards crew member
65H: Interference with aircraft
65I: Intoxicated persons on aircraft
65J: Non-compliance with commands given by pilot-in-command
65K: Offensive behaviour or words
65R: Payment of fees
96: Sale of alcohol at international airports
99C: Offences
15A: Restrictions on dumping and incineration of waste or other matter in coastal marine area
18: Possible defence in cases of unforeseen emergencies
334: Application for warrant for entry for search
338: Offences against this Act
339: Penalties
339A: Protection against imprisonment for dumping and discharge offences involving foreign ships
339B: Additional penalty for certain offences for commercial gain
341: Strict liability and defences
341A: Liability and defences for dumping and storage of waste or other matter
341B: Liability and defences for discharging harmful substances
343A: Infringement offences
343B: Commission of infringement offence
343C: Infringement notices
345: Improper dealings with immigration or identity documents
478: Interpretation
89D: Exemption for long-term prisoners
89Y: Application for exemption on grounds relating to sex offence
89Z: Grant of exemption to victim of sex offence
96P: Restriction on publication of reports of proceedings
96ZF: Restriction on publication of reports of proceedings
199: Arrest of liable person
210: Penalties for offences
212: Charging document may charge several offences
213: Charging document may be filed within 10 years
20: Obstructing WorkSafe
21: Privilege against self-incrimination
122: Miscellaneous provisions concerning actions under section 120
147B: Duties of investigator supplied with warrant of authority
147F: Offence to fail to comply with notice to supply information or document
163C: Offences for actions or omissions likely to cause serious harm or significant property damage
163D: Other offences
165A: Infringement offences
165E: Effect of infringement notice
116B: Offence to use building for use for which it is not safe or not sanitary, or if it has inadequate means of escape from fire
168: Offence not to comply with notice to fix
199: Offence to perform functions of building consent authority if not authorised
206: Chief executive must supply warrant
225: Offence to impersonate authorised officer
231: Offence to impersonate enforcement officer
49G: Offence to fail to comply with District Court order
318: Disciplinary penalties
363: Protecting safety of members of public using premises open to public or intended for public use
365: Offence to fail to comply with direction of authorised person
366: Offence to impersonate building consent authority or regional authority, etc
367: Offence to obstruct execution of powers under this Act
368: Offence to remove or deface notices
369: Offence to make false or misleading statement
370: Interpretation
371: Proceedings for infringement offences
373: Form of infringement notices
375: Prosecution of offences
376: Offences punishable on summary conviction
378: Time limit for filing charging document
379: Offence under more than 1 enactment
380: What constitutes continuing offence
386: Liability of principal for acts of agents
387: Liability for acts of employees or agents of Crown organisations
388: Strict liability and defences
389: Fines to be paid to territorial authority or regional authority instituting prosecution
162: Indemnity and insurance
239F: Who may be appointed as administrator
239AA: Company officer's liability for compensation for void transaction or dealing
239ACD: Who may be appointed as deed administrator
267: Self-incrimination
273: Certain conduct prohibited
274: Duty to identify and deliver property
308: Fines and penalties
373: Penalty for failure to comply with Act
375: Proceedings for offences
376: Defences
377: False statements
378: Fraudulent use or destruction of property
380: Carrying on business fraudulently or dishonestly incurring debt
382: Persons prohibited from managing companies
383: Court may disqualify directors
384: Liability for contravening sections 382 and 383
385: Registrar or FMA may prohibit persons from managing companies
386A: Director of failed company must not be director, etc, of phoenix company with same or substantially similar name
386C: Liability for debts of phoenix company
386F: Exception in relation to non-dormant phoenix company known by pre-liquidation name of failed company for at least 12 months before liquidation
396: Summary Proceedings Act 1957 amended
1: Short Title, commencement, etc
2: Interpretation
3: Meaning of convicted on indictment
4: Meaning of ordinarily resident in New Zealand
5: Application of Act
6: Persons not to be tried in respect of things done outside New Zealand
7: Place of commission of offence
7A: Extraterritorial jurisdiction in respect of certain offences with transnational aspects
7B: Attorney-General's consent required where jurisdiction claimed under section 7A
8: Jurisdiction in respect of crimes on ships or aircraft beyond New Zealand
8A: Jurisdiction in respect of certain persons with diplomatic or consular immunity
9: Offences not to be punishable except under New Zealand Acts
10: Offence under more than 1 enactment
10A: Criminal enactments not to have retrospective effect
10B: Period of limitation
11: Construction of other Acts
12: Summary jurisdiction
13: Powers of courts under other Acts not affected
14: Form of sentence in capital cases
15: Sentence of death not to be passed on pregnant woman
16: Sentence of death not to be passed on person under 18 years of age
17: No sentence of solitary confinement to be passed
18: Putting under bond
62F: Protection from liability
19: Enforcement of fines by High Court
20: General rule as to justifications
21: Children under 10
22: Children between 10 and 14
23: Insanity
24: Compulsion
25: Ignorance of law
26: Execution of sentence, process, or warrant
27: Execution of erroneous sentence or process
28: Sentence or process without jurisdiction
29: Irregular warrant or process
30: Arresting the wrong person
31: Arrest by constable pursuant to statutory powers
32: Arrest by constable of person believed to have committed offence
33: Arrest by other officers or persons pursuant to statutory powers
34: Persons assisting constable or officer in arrest
35: Arrest of persons found committing certain crimes
36: Arrest of person believed to be committing crime by night
37: Arrest after commission of certain crimes
38: Arrest during flight
39: Force used in executing process or in arrest
40: Preventing escape or rescue
41: Prevention of suicide or certain offences
42: Preventing breach of the peace
43: Suppression of riot
44: Suppression of riot by Police
45: Suppression of riot by persons acting under lawful orders
46: Suppression of riot by persons without orders
47: Protection of members of New Zealand forces
48: Self-defence and defence of another
49: Self-defence against provoked assault
50: Provocation defined
51: Defence of person under protection
52: Defence of movable property against trespasser
53: Defence of movable property with claim of right
54: Defence of movable property without claim of right
55: Defence of dwellinghouse
56: Defence of land or building
57: Assertion of right to land or building
58: Exercise of right of way, etc
59: Parental control
60: Discipline on ship or aircraft
61: Surgical operations
61A: Further provisions relating to surgical operations
66K: Obligations of tenant
66L: Tenant’s liability for damage caused by others
66T: Consequence of abuse, or refusal, of right of entry
66X: Abandonment by tenant
62: Excess of force
63: Consent to death
64: Obedience to de facto law
65: Other enactments not affected
66: Parties to offences
67: Conspiracy between spouses or civil union partners
68: Party to murder outside New Zealand
69: Party to any other crime outside New Zealand
70: Offence committed other than offence intended
71: Accessory after the fact
72: Attempts
73: Treason
74: Punishment for treason or attempted treason
75: Evidence of treason
76: Punishment for being party to treason
77: Inciting to mutiny
78: Espionage
78A: Wrongful communication, retention, or copying of official information
78B: Consent of Attorney-General to proceedings in relation to espionage or wrongful communication, retention, or copying of classified information or official information
78C: Questions of law in relation to espionage or wrongful communication of information
78D: Search without warrant
79: Sabotage
80: Oath to commit offence
81: Seditious offences defined
82: Seditious conspiracy
83: Seditious statements
84: Publication of seditious documents
85: Use of apparatus for making seditious documents or statements
86: Unlawful assembly
87: Riot
88: Reading the Riot Act
89: Failure of rioters to disperse
90: Riotous damage
91: Forcible entry and detainer
92: Piracy
93: Piratical acts
94: Punishment of piratical acts
95: Attempt to commit piracy
96: Conspiring to commit piracy
97: Accessory after the fact to piracy
98: Dealing in slaves
Schedule 1A: Amounts for unlawful acts
98AA: Dealing in people under 18 for sexual exploitation, removal of body parts, or engagement in forced labour
98A: Participation in organised criminal group
98B: Terms used in sections 98C to 98F
98C: Smuggling migrants
98D: Trafficking in persons
98E: Aggravating factors
98F: Attorney-General's consent to prosecutions required
99: Interpretation
100: Judicial corruption
101: Bribery of judicial officer, etc
102: Corruption and bribery of Minister of the Crown
103: Corruption and bribery of member of Parliament
104: Corruption and bribery of law enforcement officer
105: Corruption and bribery of official
105A: Corrupt use of official information
105B: Use or disclosure of personal information disclosed in breach of section 105A
105C: Bribery of foreign public official
105D: Bribery outside New Zealand of foreign public official
105E: Corruption of foreign public officials
106: Restrictions on prosecution
107: Contravention of statute
108: Perjury defined
109: Punishment of perjury
110: False oaths
111: False statements or declarations
112: Evidence of perjury, false oath, or false statement
113: Fabricating evidence
114: Use of purported affidavit or declaration
115: Conspiring to bring false accusation
116: Conspiring to defeat justice
117: Corrupting juries and witnesses
118: Assisting escape of prisoners of war or internees
119: Breaking prison
120: Escape from lawful custody
121: Assisting escape from lawful custody
122: Assisting escape of mentally impaired person detained for offence
123: Blasphemous libel
124: Distribution or exhibition of indecent matter
125: Indecent act in public place
126: Indecent act with intent to insult or offend
127: No presumption because of age
128: Sexual violation defined
128A: Allowing sexual activity does not amount to consent in some circumstances
128B: Sexual violation
129: Attempted sexual violation and assault with intent to commit sexual violation
129A: Sexual conduct with consent induced by certain threats
130: Incest
131: Sexual conduct with dependent family member
131A: Dependent family member defined
131B: Meeting young person following sexual grooming, etc
132: Sexual conduct with child under 12
133: Indecency with girl under 12
134: Sexual conduct with young person under 16
59A: Termination where breach renders premises uninhabitable
134A: Defence to charge under section 134
135: Indecent assault
136: Conspiracy to induce sexual intercourse
137: Inducing sexual intercourse under pretence of marriage
138: Sexual exploitation of person with significant impairment
139: Indecent act between woman and girl
140: Indecency with boy under 12
140A: Indecency with boy between 12 and 16
141: Indecent assault on man or boy
142: Anal intercourse
142A: Compelling indecent act with animal
143: Bestiality
144: Indecency with animal
144A: Sexual conduct with children and young people outside New Zealand
144B: Consent of Attorney-General required
144C: Organising or promoting child sex tours
145: Criminal nuisance
146: Keeping place of resort for homosexual acts
147: Brothel-keeping
148: Living on earnings of prostitution
149: Procuring for prostitution
149A: Being client in act of prostitution by person under 18 years of age
150: Misconduct in respect of human remains
150A: Standard of care applicable to persons under legal duties or performing unlawful acts
151: Duty to provide necessaries and protect from injury
152: Duty of parent or guardian to provide necessaries and protect from injury
153: Duty of employers to provide necessaries
154: Abandoning child under 6
155: Duty of persons doing dangerous acts
156: Duty of persons in charge of dangerous things
157: Duty to avoid omissions dangerous to life
158: Homicide defined
159: Killing of a child
160: Culpable homicide
161: Procuring death by false evidence
162: Death must be within a year and a day
163: Killing by influence on the mind
164: Acceleration of death
165: Causing death that might have been prevented
166: Causing injury the treatment of which causes death
167: Murder defined
168: Further definition of murder
169: Provocation
170: Illegal arrest may be evidence of provocation
171: Manslaughter
172: Punishment of murder
173: Attempt to murder
174: Counselling or attempting to procure murder
175: Conspiracy to murder
176: Accessory after the fact to murder
177: Punishment of manslaughter
178: Infanticide
179: Aiding and abetting suicide
180: Suicide pact
181: Concealing dead body of child
182: Killing unborn child
182A: Miscarriage defined
183: Abortion procured by person other than health practitioner
184: Procuring abortion by other means
185: Female procuring her own miscarriage
186: Supplying means of procuring abortion
187: Effectiveness of means used immaterial
187A: Meaning of unlawfully
188: Wounding with intent
189: Injuring with intent
190: Injuring by unlawful act
191: Aggravated wounding or injury
192: Aggravated assault
193: Assault with intent to injure
194: Assault on a child, or by a male on a female
195: Ill-treatment or neglect of child or vulnerable adult
196: Common assault
197: Disabling
198: Discharging firearm or doing dangerous act with intent
198A: Using any firearm against law enforcement officer, etc
198B: Commission of crime with firearm
199: Acid throwing
18A: Landlord must not require security other than permitted bond
200: Poisoning with intent
201: Infecting with disease
202: Setting traps, etc
202A: Possession of offensive weapons or disabling substances
202B: Powers in respect of crime against section 202A
202BA: Sentencing for second crime against section 202A(4)
202C: Assault with weapon
203: Endangering transport
204: Impeding rescue
204A: Female genital mutilation
204B: Further offences relating to female genital mutilation
205: Bigamy defined
206: Punishment of bigamy
207: Feigned marriage or civil union
208: Abduction for purposes of marriage or civil union or sexual connection
209: Kidnapping
209A: Young person under 16 cannot consent to being taken away or detained
210: Abduction of young person under 16
210A: People claiming in good faith right to possession of young person under 16
211: Criminal libel and publishing defined
212: Publishing upon invitation
213: No prosecution without leave of Judge
214: Plea of justification
215: Punishment of criminal libel
216: Criminal slander
216A: Interpretation
216B: Prohibition on use of interception devices
216C: Prohibition on disclosure of private communications unlawfully intercepted
216D: Prohibition on dealing, etc, with interception devices
216E: Forfeiture
216F: Unlawful disclosure
216G: Intimate visual recording defined
216H: Prohibition on making intimate visual recording
216I: Prohibition on possessing intimate visual recording in certain circumstances
216J: Prohibition on publishing, importing, exporting, or selling intimate visual recording
216K: Exceptions to prohibition in section 216J
216L: Disposal and forfeiture
216M: Effect of appeal on order made under section 216L
216N: Protection from liability
217: Interpretation
218: Matters of ownership
219: Theft or stealing
220: Theft by person in special relationship
221: Theft of parts of killed animals
222: Theft by spouse or partner
223: Punishment of theft
224: Power of search for goods stolen or unlawfully obtained in transit
225: Power to search vehicles for goods stolen or obtained by crimes involving dishonesty
226: Conversion of vehicle or other conveyance
227: Being in possession of instrument for conversion
228: Dishonestly taking or using document
229: Criminal breach of trust
230: Taking, obtaining, or copying trade secrets
231: Burglary
232: Aggravated burglary
233: Being disguised or in possession of instrument for burglary
234: Robbery
235: Aggravated robbery
236: Assault with intent to rob
237: Blackmail
238: Punishment of blackmail
239: Demanding with intent to steal, etc
240: Obtaining by deception or causing loss by deception
241: Punishment of obtaining by deception or causing loss by deception
242: False statement by promoter, etc
243: Money laundering
244: Defence of enforcement of enactment
245: Application of section 243 to acts outside New Zealand
246: Receiving
247: Punishment of receiving
248: Interpretation
249: Accessing computer system for dishonest purpose
250: Damaging or interfering with computer system
251: Making, selling, or distributing or possessing software for committing crime
252: Accessing computer system without authorisation
253: Qualified exemption to access without authorisation offence for New Zealand Security Intelligence Service
254: Qualified exemption to access without authorisation offence for Government Communications Security Bureau
255: Interpretation
256: Forgery
257: Using forged documents
258: Altering, concealing, destroying, or reproducing documents with intent to deceive
259: Using altered or reproduced document with intent to deceive
260: False accounting
261: Counterfeiting public seals
262: Counterfeiting corporate seals
263: Possessing forged bank notes
264: Paper or implements for forgery
265: Imitating authorised or customary marks
266: Offences involving coinage
267: Arson
268: Attempted arson
269: Intentional damage
270: Endangering transport
271: Waste or diversion of electricity, gas, or water
272: Providing explosive to commit crime
273: Using probate obtained by forgery or perjury
274: Paper or implements for forgery
275: Counterfeiting stamps
276: Falsifying registers
277: Falsifying extracts from registers
278: Uttering false certificates
279: Forging certificates
280: Imitating authorised marks
281: Imitating customary marks
282: Interpretation
283: Preparations for coining
284: Counterfeiting coin
285: Altering coin
286: Impairing coin
287: Defacing coin
288: Melting coin
289: Possessing counterfeit coin
290: Uttering counterfeit coin
291: Buying and selling counterfeit coin
292: Importing and exporting counterfeit coin
293: What constitutes criminal damage
294: Arson
295: Attempted arson
296: Damage to other property by fire or explosive
297: Attempt to damage property by fire or explosive
298: Wilful damage
298A: Causing disease or sickness in animals
298B: Contaminating food, crops, water, or other products
299: Wilful waste or diversion of water, gas, or electricity
300: Interfering with means of transport
301: Wrecking
302: Attempting to wreck
303: Interfering with signals, etc
304: Interfering with mines
305: Providing explosive to commit crime
306: Threatening to kill or do grievous bodily harm
307: Threatening to destroy property
307A: Threats of harm to people or property
308: Threatening acts in relation to dwellinghouses and persons in dwellinghouses
309: Conspiring to prevent collection of rates or taxes
310: Conspiring to commit offence
311: Attempt to commit or procure commission of offence
312: Accessory after the fact to crime
312A: Interpretation
312B: Application by Police for warrant to intercept private communications
312C: Matters on which Judge must be satisfied in respect of applications
312CA: Application by Police for warrant to intercept private communications in relation to serious violent offences
312CB: Matters on which Judge must be satisfied in respect of applications relating to serious violent offences
312CC: Application by Police for warrant to intercept private communications relating to terrorist offences
312CD: Matters of which Judge must be satisfied in respect of applications relating to terrorist offences
312D: Contents and term of warrant
312E: Effect of warrant
312F: Renewal of warrants
312G: Emergency permits
312H: Security of applications
312J: Destruction of relevant records made by use of interception device
312K: Prohibition on disclosure of private communications lawfully intercepted
312L: Notice to be given of intention to produce evidence of private communication
312M: Inadmissibility of evidence of private communications unlawfully intercepted
312N: Restriction on admissibility of evidence of private communications lawfully intercepted
312O: Privileged evidence
312P: Report to be made to Judge on use of warrant or permit
312Q: Commissioner of Police to give information to Parliament
313: General provisions as to procedure
314: Procedure where prior consent to prosecution required
315: Arrest without warrant
316: Duty of persons arresting
317: Power to enter premises to arrest offender or prevent offence
317A: Power to stop vehicles for purpose of arrest
317AA: Powers incidental to stopping vehicles under section 317A
317AB: Offences relating to stopping vehicles under section 317A
317B: Road blocks
318: When bail not allowable
319: Rules as to granting bail
319B: Variation of conditions of bail
320: Arrest of absconder
320A: Person on bail may be arrested without warrant in certain circumstances
320B: Failure to answer bail
320C: Non-performance of condition of bail bond to be certified by Judge
321: Person committed for trial may plead guilty before trial
323: Powers of court of committal as to custody or bail of accused
324: Attendance of witnesses at substituted court
328: Form of indictment
329: Contents of counts
330: Crimes may be charged in the alternative
331: Certain objections not to vitiate counts
332: Indictment for perjury or fraud
333: General provisions as to counts not affected
334: Further particulars
335: Variance and amendment
336: Indictment for treason
337: Attempt proved when crime is charged
338: Crime proved when attempt is charged
339: Part of charge proved
340: Joinder of counts
341: Charge of previous conviction
342: Objections to indictment
343: Indictment of parties
344: Accessories after the fact, and receivers
344AA: Money launderers
344A: Interlocutory order relating to admissibility of evidence
344B: Attendance at identification parade voluntary
344C: Information relating to identification witness to be supplied to defendant
344D: Jury to be warned where principal evidence relates to identification
345: Filing indictment
345A: Time for filing indictment
345B: Extension of time for filing indictment
345C: Trial Judge may excuse disclosure of information relating to Police investigations
345D: Leave to file amended indictments
346: Failure of prosecutor to file indictment
347: Power to discharge accused
348: Copy of indictment
349: Special provisions in case of treason
350: Bench warrant
351: Failure of witness to attend
353: Record of proceedings
354: Right to be defended
355: Arraignment
356: Plea
357: Special pleas
358: Pleas of previous acquittal and conviction
359: Second accusation
360: Evidence of former trial
361: Plea on behalf of corporation
361A: Trial before a Judge with a jury general rule
361B: Accused may apply for trial before a Judge without a jury
361C: Judge may order trial without a jury in certain cases
364: Caution to accused when undefended
365: Question to accused when undefended
366: Comment on failure to give evidence
366A: Unsworn statement prohibited
367A: Notice of alibi
368: Adjourning trial for witnesses
369: Admissions
369A: Prosecution may withdraw in certain cases
370: Jury retiring to consider verdict
371: Motion in arrest of judgment. Sentence
372: Correction of erroneous sentence
373: Discretion to keep jury together
374: Discharge of juror or jury
375: Power to clear court and forbid report of proceedings
375A: Special provisions in cases of sexual nature
376: Presence of the accused
378: Stay of proceedings
379: Interpretation
379A: Right of appeal in certain cases
379B: Appeal from decision of High Court relating to bail
379C: Procedural provisions relating to appeal on question of bail
379D: Execution of decision of Court of Appeal
380: Reserving question of law
381: Appeal where no question reserved
383: Right of appeal against conviction or sentence
383A: Appeal against decision of Court of Appeal on appeal against conviction or sentence
385: Determination of appeals in ordinary cases
387: Revesting and restitution of property on conviction
390: Duty of Solicitor-General
391: Costs of appeal
392: Duties of Registrar with respect to notices of appeal, etc
392A: Decision about mode of hearing
392B: Hearings on the papers
397: Granting of bail to appellant, and custody pending appeal
398: Judgment of Court of Appeal
399: Intermediate effects of appeal
400: Consent of Attorney-General to certain prosecutions
401: Contempt of court
403: Compensation for loss of property
404: Restitution of property
405: Civil remedy not suspended
406: Prerogative of mercy
406A: Appeals against decisions made on references
407: Effect of free pardon
408: Act to bind the Crown
411: Consequential amendments
412: Repeals and savings
Schedule 1: Carrying out of sentence of death
Schedule 2: Forms
Schedule 3: Enactments amended
Schedule 4: United Kingdom enactments ceasing to have effect in New Zealand
Schedule 5: New Zealand enactments repealed
Schedule 6: Interception warrant
87: Officers not to accept commissions
132: Offences in relation to property of societies
133: False statements in documents
134: Summary jurisdiction in respect of indictable offences
135: Time for filing charging document
22: Defences to offences
25: How proceedings commenced
28: Reminder notices
39: Return of property seized and impounded
17: Other matters relevant to fitness for licensing
57: Inspection powers
63: Offence to provide immigration advice unless licensed or exempt
64: Offence of holding out as immigration adviser unless licensed or exempt
65: Offence of holding out as licensed immigration adviser
66: Offence to provide false or misleading information
67: Offence of asking for or receiving fee or reward for immigration advice when neither licensed nor exempt
68: Offence of employing or contracting unlicensed or non-exempt person as immigration adviser
69: Offence to obstruct inspection
71: Reparation
72: Additional penalty for offence involving commercial gain
195A: Failure to protect child or vulnerable adult
293A: Warrant to enter and search
243A: Charges for money laundering
128A: Offences in relation to dangerous, affected, or insanitary buildings
134C: Offence of failing to classify dam
371D: Offence to impersonate enforcement officer
6: Disqualification from registration
24: Offences
314A: Statutory search power
314C: Powers incidental to stopping vehicles under section 314B
314D: Offences relating to stopping vehicles under section 314B
46D: Terms of management banning orders
46E: Offence to breach management banning order
147A: Criteria for making or continuing bylaws
147B: Criteria for making resolutions relating to bylaws
169A: Proving substance is alcohol in relation to alleged breach of alcohol ban
239A: Breaches of alcohol bans
32BA: Effect of infringement notice
41B: Regulations relating to infringement fees
22: When access to workplaces may be denied
15: Part 3 does not apply to prisoners
47: Offence of reckless conduct in respect of duty
48: Offence of failing to comply with duty that exposes individual to risk of death or serious injury or serious illness
53: Actions taken to prevent harm
54: Proof of intention not required for certain offences
78: Offence relating to breach of provisional improvement notice
91: Prohibition on requesting, instructing, inducing, encouraging, authorising, or assisting adverse conduct
92: Prohibition on coercion or inducement
93: Misrepresentation
107: Compliance with prohibition notice
126: Compliance with enforceable undertaking
129: Proceedings for alleged contravention
136: Interpretation
137: Proceedings for infringement offence
138: Infringement notices
139: Revocation of infringement notice
151: Sentencing criteria
159: Offence to fail to comply with order
176: Duty to assist inspectors
178: Offence for failing to provide inspector with correct name and residential address
179: Offence to hinder or obstruct inspector
180: Offence to impersonate inspector
187: Offence to hinder or obstruct health and safety medical practitioner
188: Offence to impersonate health and safety medical practitioner
162B: Arrest of liable person
207Y: Infringement offences
235: Obstruction
40C: Infringement offence alleged
40G: Effect of infringement notice
40H: Regulations relating to infringement offences
138A: Offence for serious breach of director's duty to act in good faith and in best interests of company
240A: Application of section 240 to match-fixing
144: Private prosecutions
365A: Purpose of sections 365B to 365H
385AA: Additional power for Registrar or FMA to prohibit persons from managing companies
124A: Indecent communication with young person under 16
144AB: Party or accessory liability for sexual acts with children or young people outside New Zealand done by, or involving, foreigner principal parties
55: Duty to preserve sites
146: Limitation period for prosecutions brought by regulator
147: Extension of time if regulator needs longer to decide whether to bring prosecution
148: Limitation period for private prosecutions
149: Certain proceedings may be brought after end of limitation period if fresh evidence discovered
160: State of mind of directors, employees, or agents attributed
208: Requirement to comply with conditions of authorisation
105F: Trading in influence
228A: Designing, manufacturing, or adapting goods with intent to facilitate commission of crimes involving dishonesty
228B: Possessing, selling, or disposing of goods designed, manufactured, or adapted with intent to facilitate commission of crimes involving dishonesty
228C: Possessing goods capable of being used to facilitate crimes involving dishonesty with intent to facilitate commission of those offences
105: Failure to comply with obligation under this Part
148: Compliant drug test defined
150: Use of drug test result
209: Benefit not payable to person who is subject to warrant of arrest
211: MSD must give beneficiary notice of unresolved warrant
215: MSD must give beneficiary notice of immediate suspension
217: Benefit not payable during custody in prison or on remand
231: What this Part does
263: How person recomplies after failure to comply with drug-testing obligation
269: Sanction for failure to comply with young person obligation
290: Offences: false statements, misleading, or attempting to mislead, to receive or continue to receive benefits
291: Offences: spouse or partner knowingly benefiting from excess amount obtained by beneficiary's fraud
292: Offence of demanding or accepting fee or other consideration in relation to grant of benefit
293: Offence of demanding or accepting acknowledgement or undertaking
295: Time for filing charging document
354: Recovery of penalty from beneficiary who obtains by fraud amount in excess of entitlement
355: Restriction on imposing penalty under section 354: prosecution for offence
359: Recovery from spouse or partner of apportioned excess amount beneficiary obtained by fraud
360: Obtaining amount by fraud: meaning and proof
361: Recovery from spouse or partner of unapportioned excess amount beneficiary obtained by fraud
435: Regulations: factors affecting benefits: issue of warrant to arrest beneficiary
142D: What declaration of breach must state
142G: Maximum amount of pecuniary penalty
142I: Limitation period for actions for pecuniary penalty orders
142R: Offence to breach banning order
142V: Insurance against pecuniary penalties unlawful
235A: Interpretation
235B: Infringement offences
235E: Infringement fees
152: Revesting of property in stolen goods on conviction of offender
288F: Procedure and appeals relating to section 288C orders
133AU: Offences in relation to earthquake-prone buildings
78AA: Wrongful communication, retention, or copying of classified information
33: Tenant's goods not to be seized
47: Landlord to give notice to tenant if premises put on market
63: Entry without order of Tribunal prohibited
111: Giving false evidence
138: Time for filing charging document
47: Power to search
53A: Offence relating to unlawful destruction of specified greyhound
70A: Offence of breaching suppression order
189A: Strangulation or suffocation
194A: Assault on person in family relationship
207A: Coerced marriage or civil union
17A: Requiring letting fee prohibited
220A: Theft of livestock and other animals
231A: Entry onto agricultural land with intent to commit imprisonable offence
4A: Transitional, savings, and related provisions
Schedule 1AA: Transitional, savings, and related provisions
118: Offence to fail to notify Commissioner
197: Offence in relation to transfer prohibition notice
133BS: Measures to keep people at safe distance and protect building
133BT: Notices and signs on buildings
207Q: Offence to interfere with investigation site
207R: Offence to access investigation site despite restriction or prohibition
207S: Offence to obstruct investigation or fail to provide information or document
343L: Order for payment of EPA’s costs in bringing a prosecution
138E: Regulations relating to termination of tenancy for physical assault by tenant
139A: Regulations relating to infringement offences
109C: Maximum amount of pecuniary penalty
109E: Only 1 pecuniary penalty order may be made for same conduct
126A: Interpretation
126B: Proceedings for infringement offences
126C: When infringement notice may be issued
126P: Compliance with enforceable undertaking
137A: Only 1 penalty type for same conduct
22G: Landlord must not invite or encourage bids for rent
55AA: Termination by notice for physical assault by tenant
161A: What is local authority legislation
272G: Offence to misrepresent status as product certification body
272H: Offence to misrepresent product certificate
272ZI: Offence to misrepresent status
272ZJ: Offence to misrepresent modular component as manufactured by registered MCM
362VD: Defences for offences against sections 362VB and 362VC
308A: Discharging firearm to intimidate
131AB: Grooming for sexual conduct with young person
20C: Other infringement offences
20D: Strict liability offences
20E: Penalties for infringement offences
20F: Offence to discharge certain substances
20G: Offence to interfere with enforcement officer
27B: Form of infringement notices
364B: Infringement fine for prescribed employment infringement offences
235DC: Reminder notices
3: Purpose
5: Transitional, savings, and related provisions
6: Act binds the Crown
7: Prohibition on display of gang insignia in public place
10: Power to issue dispersal notice
12: Power to detain for purposes of issuing and serving notice
15: Duration of dispersal notice
16: Terms of dispersal notice
17: Limits on dispersal notices
18: Variation of dispersal notice for specified reasons
19: Breach of dispersal notice
20: Review of dispersal notice
21: Power to make non-consorting orders
22: Duration of non-consorting order
23: Terms of non-consorting order
24: Limits on non-consorting orders
25: Breach of non-consorting order
27: Variation of non-consorting order for specified reasons
28: Civil proceedings
29: Standard of proof
30: Filing charging document for offence
31: Application of Evidence Act 2006
32: Power to amend Schedule 2 by Order in Council
35: Section 4 amended (Interpretation)
39: Consequential amendments
Schedule 1: Transitional, savings, and related provisions
Schedule 2: Identified gangs
Schedule 3: Consequential amendments
37: Regulation 3 amended (Application)
13: Duty of constable to explain dispersal notice
11: Service of dispersal notice
9: Mandatory gang insignia prohibition order for repeat offences
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