New Zealand Legislation: Acts
Acts are laws made by Parliament
(1) No court may impose a sentence of imprisonment 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.
Compare: 1985 No 120 s 8