New Zealand Legislation: Acts
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(1) Every person commits an offence against this section who habitually associates with a violent offender in circumstances from which it can reasonably be inferred that the association will lead to the commission of a crime involving violence by that person or any such offender.
(2) No information for an offence against this section may be laid unless—
(a) the defendant has been warned by any constable on at least 3 separate occasions that his or her continued association with the violent offender may lead to a charge being brought against him or her under this section; and
(b) every warning under paragraph (a) in respect of an association with a violent offender is given not more than 7 years after the date of that violent offender's last conviction for a crime involving violence.
(3) This section does not apply in respect of any habitual association between 2 persons in either of the following circumstances:
(a) where a protection order is in force under the Domestic Violence Act 1995, and that order is for the benefit of one of those 2 persons and applies against the other of those 2 persons:
(b) where—
(i) both persons are, or have been, in a domestic relationship (as defined by section 4 of that Act) with each other; and
(ii) the crimes involving violence, the commission of which can reasonably be inferred from that association, are crimes that will be committed by one of those persons against the other person, or by one of those persons against a third person who is in a domestic relationship (as so defined) with the other person.
(4) To avoid any doubt, if a person who is a violent offender habitually associates with another violent offender 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.
(5) Every person who commits an offence against this section is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or a fine not exceeding $2,000.
(6) In this section violent offender means a person who has been convicted on at least 2 separate occasions of a crime involving violence.
Section 6A: inserted, on 1 January 1998, by section 4 of the Summary Offences Amendment Act 1997 (1997 No 97).
