New Zealand Legislation: Acts

20 Evidence in bail hearing

• (1) In hearing an application for bail a court may receive as evidence any statement, document, information, or matter that it considers relevant, whether or not it would be otherwise admissible in a court of law.

  (2) Despite subsection (1), when considering the matter described in section 8(2)(b),—

  • (a) the court may only consider a statement, document, information, or matter that would be admissible in a court of law if made by the appropriate person or given or produced in proper form; but

  • (b) for the purpose of the bail hearing, it does not matter whether the evidence—

    • (i) is given or produced by the appropriate person or given or produced in sworn or unsworn form; or

    • (ii) is otherwise given or produced in a form in which it would be admissible in a court of law.

  Section 20(2): substituted, on 19 December 2002, by section 3 of the Bail Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 57).