National Parks Amendment Act 1965

Public Act		1965 No 98
Date of assent		27 October 1965

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Powers of park rangers, constables, etc.
3	Time within which information may be laid
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the National Parks Act 1952

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 National Parks Amendment Act 1965, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the National Parks Act 1952 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Powers of park rangers, constables, etc.

The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing section 52, and substituting the following section:

“52.

“(1)

Any officer may summarily interfere to prevent any actual or attempted breach of this Act or of any regulation or bylaw thereunder, and he may require any person found offending to desist from the offence. If any person when so required continues the offence, he commits a further offence against this Act.

“(2)

It shall be lawful for an officer to require any person found offending against this Act or any regulation or bylaw made under this Act to disclose his true Christian name, surname, and place of abode, and if that person, when so required,—

“(a)

Refuses to disclose his true Christian name, surname, or place of abode; or

“(b)

Gives a false name or address; or

“(c)

Gives a description of his place of abode that is illusory for the purpose of discovery,—

he commits an offence against this Act.

“(3)

The production by any officer of his warrant, instrument of appointment, or other written evidence of identification shall be sufficient evidence of the authority of that officer to exercise the powers conferred by this section.

“(4)

For the purposes of this section the expression ‘officer’ means any park ranger, constable, or employee of the Authority, the Board, or the Department of Lands and Survey.”

3 Time within which information may be laid

Section 55 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the words “two years from the time when the matter of the information arose”, and substituting the words “twelve months from the time of discovery of the offence”.

This Act is administered in the Department of Lands and Survey.

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