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Summary Proceedings Amendment Act 1967

Public Act		1967 No 33
Date of assent		29 September 1967

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Stay of proceedings
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Summary Proceedings Act 1957

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 Summary Proceedings Amendment Act 1967, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Summary Proceedings Act 1957 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Stay of proceedings

The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after section 77, the following section:

“77a

The Attorney-General may, at any time after an information has been laid against any person under this Part of this Act and before that person has been convicted or otherwise dealt with, direct that an entry be made in the Criminal Record Book that the proceedings are stayed by his direction, and on that entry being made the proceedings shall be stayed accordingly.”

This Act is administered in the Department of Justice.

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