Proposed amendment
Golriz Ghahraman, in Committee, to move the following amendment:
Schedule
In the Schedule, new part 4 of Schedule 1AA, replace clause 13 (page 9, lines 6 to 23) with:
13 Treatment of persons convicted and sentenced before enactment of Three Strikes Legislation Repeal Act 2021
(1)
This clause applies to a person who, before 1 July 2022, was convicted of and sentenced for a stage-2 or stage-3 offence.
(2)
If this clause applies,—
(a)
the person may apply to the court under section 180 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 to be re-sentenced, and that section applies, with any necessary modifications, as if the sentence that had been imposed was one that could not by law be imposed; and
(b)
in the case of a conflict between section 34 of the Legislation Act 2019 and—
(i)
section 6 of the Sentencing Act 2022, section 6 prevails; or
(ii)
section 25(g) of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990, section 25(g) prevails.