New Zealand Legislation: Acts
Acts are laws made by Parliament
Reprint as at 1 October 2008
| Public Act | 1990 No 51 |
| Date of assent | 3 July 1990 |
| Commencement | 3 July 1990 |
Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this reprint.
A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this reprint, together with other explanatory material about this reprint.
This Act is administered by the Ministry of Justice.
Part 1
Detection of serious or complex fraud
4 Exercise of powers under this Part
5 Power to require production of documents
6 Power to obtain search warrant
Part 2
Investigation of suspected offences involving serious or complex fraud
7 Exercise of powers under this Part
8 Factors to which Director may have regard
9 Power to require attendance before Director, production of documents, etc
10 Power to obtain search warrant
11 Power to assume from Police the responsibility for investigating certain cases of fraud
Part 3
General provisions relating to warrants and exercise of powers under Parts 1 and 2
General provisions relating to warrants
14 Disclosure of previous applications
15 Persons by whom warrant may be executed
17 Notice that warrant has been executed, etc
General provisions relating to exercise of powers under Parts 1 and 2
18 Form and content of notices
Challenge to exercise of Director's powers
20 Review of Director's decisions
22 Effect of final decision that exercise of powers unlawful
Effect of powers on duty of confidentiality
23 Act to apply to persons with duty of confidentiality to clients
24 Legal professional privilege
25 Certain provisions not to apply to Police, Inland Revenue, and Statistics Department officers
27 Privilege against self-incrimination no excuse
28 Admissibility of self-incriminating statements
Part 4
Miscellaneous provisions
Provisions relating to State Sector Act 1988 and other matters
30 Independence in matters relating to investigations
31 Chief executive of Serious Fraud Office
32 Judicial notice of signature of Director
33 Delegation of functions or powers
34 Exercise of powers by outside investigators
36 Secrecy of certain information relating to Serious Fraud Office business
37 Secrecy of information protected under Inland Revenue Department Act 1974
38 Disclosure to Serious Fraud Office of information protected under other Acts
39 Secrecy of information protected under other Acts
40 Obligation to inform that protected information is secret
41 Secrecy to be observed by other persons to whom protected information is disclosed under this Act
42 Authorisations to disclose protected information
43 Protected information may cease to be secret
44 Persons ceasing to be members of Serious Fraud Office under continuing obligation of secrecy
Miscellaneous offences and penalties
45 Offence to obstruct investigation, etc
46 Offence to destroy, alter, or conceal records, etc
48 Serious Fraud Prosecutors Panel
49 No obligation to investigate, etc
50 Exercise of powers not precluded by certain matters
51 Agreements with overseas agencies
54 Amendment to Summary Proceedings Act 1957
55 Amendment to Inland Revenue Department Act 1974
56 Amendments to Wanganui Computer Centre Act 1976 [Repealed]
Schedule
Amendments to Wanganui Computer Centre Act 1976
[Repealed]
An Act—
(a) to facilitate the detection and investigation by the Serious Fraud Office of cases of serious or complex fraud; and
(b) to enable proceedings relating to such fraud to be taken expeditiously; and
(c) to provide for matters incidental upon the establishment of the Serious Fraud Office
