New Zealand Legislation: Acts
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(1) Every person is liable to a fine not exceeding $500 who sends or delivers or causes to be sent or delivered to any other person any document that is intended or is likely, by reason of its wording or appearance or in any other manner, to cause any person to believe, contrary to the fact, that—
(a) the document has been issued by or with the authority of a court or Judge or Justice or Community Magistrate, or an officer of a court; or
(b) the issue or delivery of the document has any legal effect or operation as a step or process in or preliminary to any civil or criminal proceedings.
(2) Every person is liable to a fine not exceeding $500 who prints or sells or offers for sale any printed form of document intended to be filled up and used as a document the delivery of which to any person would constitute an offence against subsection (1).
(3) It is no defence in a prosecution under this section that—
(a) the person who received the document was not actually deceived by it; or
(b) the document does not purport to be any summons, notice, or other document—
(i) that any actual court or Judge or Justice or Community Magistrate, or any officer of a court, has authority to issue; or
(ii) the issue of which has any legal effect or operation of a kind referred to in subsection (1).
Compare: 1927 No 35 s 20(1)–(3); 1967 No 154 s 2(1)
Section 18(1)(a): amended, on 30 June 1998, by section 2 of the Summary Offences Amendment Act 1998 (1998 No 80).
Section 18(3)(b)(i): amended, on 30 June 1998, by section 2 of the Summary Offences Amendment Act 1998 (1998 No 80).
