New Zealand Legislation: Acts

49A Offence to fail to comply with direction

• (1) Every person commits an offence who, without reasonable excuse, fails on any occasion to comply with a direction made under section 32(1) or (2) to attend a specified programme.

  (2) Every person who commits an offence against this section is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to a fine not exceeding $5,000.

  Section 49A: inserted, on 28 October 2009, by section 7(1) of the Domestic Violence Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 43).