New Zealand Legislation: Acts

36 Contravention of section 7 or section 22 involving injury

• (1) A person commits an indictable offence if the person—

  • (a) drives or causes to be driven a motor vehicle recklessly and by that act or omission causes an injury to another person; or

  • (b) drives or causes a motor vehicle to be driven at a speed or in a manner which, having regard to all the circumstances, is or might be dangerous to the public or to a person and by that act or omission causes an injury to another person; or

  • (c) without reasonable excuse, contravenes section 22 by failing to stop and ascertain whether any person has been injured, and render assistance, after an accident where a person has been injured or killed.

  (2) If a person is convicted of an offence against subsection (1),—

  • (a) the maximum penalty is imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years or a fine not exceeding $20,000; and

  • (b) the court must order the person to be disqualified from holding or obtaining a driver licence for 1 year or more.

  (3) The imposition of a mandatory disqualification under this section is subject to section 81.

  Compare: 1962 No 135 ss 30AA(1), (2A)(b), (d), 55(1), 65(4)

  Section 36 heading: amended, on 10 May 2011, by section 19(1) of the Land Transport (Road Safety and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2011 (2011 No 13).

  Section 36(1): substituted, on 22 June 2005, by section 23 of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 77).

  Section 36(1)(a): amended, on 10 May 2011, by section 19(2) of the Land Transport (Road Safety and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2011 (2011 No 13).

  Section 36(1)(b): amended, on 10 May 2011, by section 19(3) of the Land Transport (Road Safety and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2011 (2011 No 13).