New Zealand Legislation: Acts
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(1) If a suitable person is available to arrange and facilitate a meeting between a victim and an offender to resolve issues relating to the offence, a judicial officer, lawyer for an offender, member of court staff, probation officer, or prosecutor should, if he or she is satisfied of the matters stated in subsection (2), encourage the holding of a meeting of that kind.
(2) The matters are—
(a) that the victim and offender agree to the holding of a meeting of that kind; and
(b) that the resources required for a meeting of that kind to be arranged, facilitated, and held, are available; and
(c) that the holding of a meeting of that kind is otherwise practicable, and is in all the circumstances appropriate.