New Zealand Legislation: Acts
Acts are laws made by Parliament
(1) Where 3 or more persons, each of whom has been convicted of a relevant offence within the previous 2 years, conduct themselves on any private premises in such a manner as to cause persons in the neighbourhood of those premises to fear on reasonable grounds that those 3 or more persons will commit or cause any other person to commit any relevant offence in that neighbourhood or elsewhere, each of those 3 or more persons is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or a fine not exceeding $2,000.
(2) In this section relevant offence means—
(a) Any offence of, or of which an ingredient is,—
(i) Assault; or
(ii) Threatening or offensive or disorderly behaviour; or
(iii) Possession of offensive weapons:
(b) An offence against section 86 (unlawful assembly) or section 87 (riot) of the Crimes Act 1961.
Compare: 1927 No 35 s 34A; 1976 No 157 s 2
Subsection (1) was amended, as from 1 January 1998, by section 7 Summary Offences Amendment Act 1997 (1997 No 97) by substituting the expression “$2,000”
for the expression “$1,000”
.