New Zealand Legislation: Acts

21 Information ascertained to be submitted to judicial officer

• (1) Information recorded under section 19(1) must be submitted to the judicial officer sentencing the offender. However, if the information was ascertained from a person treated as a victim, under section 20, it may be submitted only with the leave of the judicial officer.

  (2) The information must be submitted by the prosecutor and in the form in which it was recorded under section 19(1), unless—

  • (a) the judicial officer, on a request made by the prosecutor for the purpose, permits all or part of it to be submitted instead by the prosecutor reading it, replaying it, or submitting it in another way:

  • (b) a request is made by, or on behalf of, the victim, that all or part of it be submitted instead by the victim, or by 1 person named by the victim, reading all or part of it, and the judicial officer does not direct otherwise.

  (3) In determining the weight (if any) to give to the information, the judicial officer must have regard to whether or not it was verified in the way stated in section 19(3) or (4).

  Compare: 1987 No 173 s 8(2), (4)