New Zealand Legislation: Acts

24 Obstruction of member of fact-finding mission

• (1) Every person commits an offence who wilfully obstructs, hinders, resists, or deceives any member of a fact-finding mission who is exercising in New Zealand any function contemplated, or any power provided for, in the Convention.

  (2) Nothing in subsection (1) applies to a refusal to give consent to entry by a member of a fact-finding mission who is not acting pursuant to a search warrant (whether issued under section 22 or otherwise).

  (3) Every person who commits an offence against subsection (1) is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or a fine not exceeding $20,000.

  Compare: 1996 No 37 s 26