New Zealand Legislation: Acts

15B Limitation on sentence of home detention for person under 17 years

• (1) No court may impose a sentence of home detention on an offender in respect of a particular offence, other than a purely indictable offence, if, at the time of the commission of the offence, the offender was under the age of 17 years.

  (2) In subsection (1), purely indictable offence means any indictable offence within the meaning of section 2(1) of the Summary Proceedings Act 1957, other than an offence for which, under section 6 of that Act, proceedings may be taken in a summary way in accordance with that Act.

  Section 15B: inserted, on 1 October 2007, by section 10 of the Sentencing Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 27).