New Zealand Legislation: Acts

1 Short Title, commencement, etc

• (1) This Act may be cited as the Crimes Act 1961.

  (2) This Act shall come into force on 1 January 1962.

  (3) This Act is divided into Parts, as follows:

  Part 1—Jurisdiction (sections 5 to 12)

  Part 2—Punishments (sections 13 to 19F)

  Part 3—Matters of justification or excuse (sections 20 to 65)

  Part 4—Parties to the commission of offences (sections 66 to 72)

  Part 5—Crimes against public order (sections 73 to 98F)

  Part 6—Crimes affecting the administration of law and justice (sections 99 to 122)

  Part 7—Crimes against religion, morality, and public welfare (sections 123 to 150)

  Part 8—Crimes against the person (sections 150A to 210A)

  Part 9—Crimes against reputation (sections 211 to 216)

  Part 9A—Crimes against personal privacy (sections 216A to 216N)

  Part 10—Crimes against rights of property (sections 217 to 305)

  Part 11—Threatening, conspiring, and attempting to commit offences (sections 306 to 312)

  Part 11A—Obtaining evidence by listening devices (sections 312A to 312Q)

  Part 12—Procedure (sections 313 to 378F)

  Part 13—Appeals (sections 379 to 399)

  Part 14—Miscellaneous provisions (sections 400 to 415)