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Summary Offences Amendment Act 1986

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Summary Offences Amendment Act 1986

Public Act		1986 No 72
Date of assent		30 September 1986

	Title
1	Short Title and commencement
2	Possession of knives
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Summary Offences Act 1981

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 and commencement

(1)

This Act may be cited as the Summary Offences Amendment Act 1986, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Summary Offences Act 1981 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

(2)

This Act shall come into force on the 28th day after the date on which it receives the Governor-General’s assent.

2 Possession of knives

The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after section 13, the following section:

“13a

Every person is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or a fine not exceeding $1,000 who, in any public place, without reasonable excuse, has any knife in his or her possession.”

This Act is administered in the Department of Justice.

Summary Offences Amendment Act 1986