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, in any public place, without reasonable excuse, has any knife in his or her possession.
(2) On convicting any person of an offence against subsection (1) of this section, the Court may order that the knife be forfeited to the Crown.
Section 13A was inserted, as from 30 September 1986, by section 2 Summary Offences Amendment Act 1986 (1986 No 72).
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”
.
Subsection (2) was inserted, as from 1 August 1987, by section 2 Summary Offences Amendment Act (No 2) 1987 (1987 No 171).