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Summary Proceedings Amendment Act 1978

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Defendant may not be released where charged with certain drug dealing offences

Summary Proceedings Amendment Act 1978

Public Act		1978 No 68
Date of assent		16 October 1978

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Defendant may not be released where charged with certain drug dealing offences
	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 1978, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Summary Proceedings Act 1957 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Defendant may not be released where charged with certain drug dealing offences

(1)

Section 46 of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after the words “as the case may be, may”, the words “, subject to section 30 of the Misuse of Drugs Amendment Act 1978,”.

(2)

Section 125(1) of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, before the words “An appellant”, the words “Subject to section 30 of the Misuse of Drugs Amendment Act 1978,”.

This Act is administered in the Department of Justice.

Summary Proceedings Amendment Act 1978