New Zealand Legislation: Acts

15 Granting of bail to defendant under 20 years of age

• (1) If a court remands or commits for trial or for sentence a defendant who appears to the court to be of or over the age of 17 years but under the age of 20 years, it must release the defendant on bail or otherwise subject to such conditions as it thinks fit.

  (2) Subsection (1) is subject to—

  • (a) sections 7 (except subsection (5)), 9 to 12, and 16 and 17; and

  • (b) subsections (4A) and (4B) of section 142 of the Criminal Justice Act 1985,—

  but no other enactment.

  (3) Subject to subsections (1) and (2) of section 142 of the Criminal Justice Act 1985 and to the Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Act 1989, this section applies in respect of a defendant who is under the age of 17 years and who is charged with or convicted of any offence in a District Court or the High Court.

  Compare: 1985 No 120 s 142(4)