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Crimes Amendment Act 1963

Public Act		1963 No 120
Date of assent		23 October 1963

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Contents of counts
3	Presenting indictment
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Crimes Act 1961

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 Crimes Amendment Act 1963, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Crimes Act 1961 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Contents of counts

Section 329 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection (1) the words “some crime therein specified”, and substituting the words “either some crime therein specified or, except where the indictment contains a count specifying a crime for which an offender may be proceeded against only by indictment, some offence therein specified that is punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding three months; and for the purposes of this section and of sections 330 to 344 of this Act the term ‘crime’ shall be deemed to include any such offence as aforesaid”.

3 Presenting indictment

Section 345 of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing subsection (1), and substituting the following subsection:

“(1)

Where any person is committed for trial, or any two or more persons are so committed, whether jointly or severally, an indictment may be presented in the Supreme Court for any charge or charges founded on the evidence disclosed in any depositions taken against such person or persons.”

This Act is administered in the Department of Justice.

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Crimes Amendment Act 1963