New Zealand Legislation: Acts

10A Ill-treatment or wilful neglect of child

• Every person is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to a fine not exceeding $4,000 who,—

  • (a) being a paid or unpaid staff member of a residence under the Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Act 1989, ill-treats or wilfully neglects any child under the age of 17 years who resides in that residence; or

  • (b) being a person to whom the care or custody of a child under the age of 17 years has been lawfully entrusted, ill-treats or wilfully neglects that child.

  Compare: 1974 No 72 s 103(1)

  Section 10A: inserted, on 1 November 1989, by section 453 of the Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Act 1989 (1989 No 24).

  Section 10A: amended, on 1 January 1998, by section 7 of the Summary Offences Amendment Act 1997 (1997 No 97).