New Zealand Legislation: Acts
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(1) Every person is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or a fine not exceeding $2,000 who habitually associates with a convicted thief in circumstances from which it can reasonably be inferred that the association is likely to lead to the commission of a crime involving dishonesty by that person or any such thief.
(2) No information for an offence against this section shall be laid unless the defendant has been warned by any constable on at least 3 separate occasions that his continued association with the convicted thief may lead to a charge being brought against him under this section.
(2A) To avoid any doubt, if a person who is a convicted thief habitually associates with another convicted thief in the circumstances specified in subsection (1), this section does not prevent one or both of those persons from being charged with an offence under this section.
(3) In this section convicted thief means a person who has been convicted on at least 3 separate occasions of a crime involving dishonesty.
Compare: 1927 No 35 s 49(d); 1967 No 154 s 2(1)
Section 6(1): amended, on 1 January 1998, by section 7 of the Summary Offences Amendment Act 1997 (1997 No 97).
Section 6(2A): inserted, on 1 January 1998, by section 3 of the Summary Offences Amendment Act 1997 (1997 No 97).
