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Penal Institutions Amendment Act 1969

Public Act		1969 No 34
Date of assent		18 September 1969

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Earnings of employed inmate
3	Offences by inmates
4	Offences
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Penal Institutions Act 1954

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 Penal Institutions Amendment Act 1969, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Penal Institutions Act 1954 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Earnings of employed inmate

Section 21c of the principal Act (as inserted by section 2 of the Penal Institutions Amendment Act 1961 and as amended by section 24(2) of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Act 1963) is hereby further amended by adding to paragraph (f) of subsection (4) the words “or of any other debt acknowledged in writing by the inmate as owing by him”.

3 Offences by inmates

Section 33 of the principal Act (as amended by section 4 of the Penal Institutions Amendment Act 1961) is hereby further amended by inserting, after subsection (3), the following subsection:

“(3a)

Where the offence proved is an offence against paragraph (g) of subsection (1) of section 32 of this Act, the Visiting Justice, if he is a Magistrate, may, whether he imposes a penalty under this section or not, order that any article in respect of which the offence was committed shall be forfeited to the Crown:

“Provided that before he makes an order under this subsection he shall give the inmate an opportunity of showing cause why the order should not be made”.

4 Offences

Section 44 of the principal Act (as amended by section 2 of the Penal Institutions Amendment Act 1965) is hereby further amended by omitting from paragraph (a) of subsection (1) the words “Brings or causes to be brought”, and substituting the words “Introduces or causes to be introduced”.

This Act is administered in the Department of Justice.

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