Courts Martial Appeals Amendment Act 1959
Courts Martial Appeals Amendment Act 1959
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Courts Martial Appeals Amendment Act 1959
Courts Martial Appeals Amendment Act 1959
Public Act |
1959 No 59 |
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Date of assent |
22 October 1959 |
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Contents
An Act to amend the Courts Martial Appeals Act 1953
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Short Title
This Act may be cited as the Courts Martial Appeals Amendment Act 1959, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Courts Martial Appeals Act 1953 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2 Right of appeal from Court Martial
Section six of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding the following proviso:
“Provided that the leave of the Court shall not be required in any case where the person convicted was sentenced by the Court Martial to imprisonment for ninety days or more or to detention for ninety days or more.”
3 Person not to be tried again where conviction quashed
Section twenty of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, before the words “Where the conviction”
, the words “Except as provided in subsection two of section eight of this Act”
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