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Crimes Amendment Act 1978

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Crimes Amendment Act 1978

Public Act		1978 No 6
Date of assent		10 July 1978

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Meaning of “unlawfully”
	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 1978, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Crimes Act 1961 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Meaning of “unlawfully”

(1)

Section 187a of the principal Act (as inserted by section 6 of the Crimes Amendment Act 1977) is hereby amended by omitting from subsection (1)(a) the words “, and that the danger cannot be averted by any other means”.

(2)

The said section 187a is hereby further amended by inserting in subsection (1), after paragraph (a), the following paragraph:

“(aa)

That there is a substantial risk that the child, if born, would be so physically or mentally abnormal as to be seriously handicapped; or”.

This Act is administered in the Department of Justice.

Crimes Amendment Act 1978