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Crimes Amendment Act 1991

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Short Title and commencement

Right of appeal against conviction or sentence

Crimes Amendment Act 1991

Public Act		1991 No 63
Date of assent		12 July 1991

	Title
1	Short Title and commencement
2	Right of appeal against conviction or sentence
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Crimes Act 1961

BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of New Zealand as follows:

1 Short Title and commencement

(1)

This Act may be cited as the Crimes Amendment Act 1991, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Crimes Act 1961 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

(2)

This Act shall come into force on the 15th day of August 1991.

2 Right of appeal against conviction or sentence

Section 383 of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing subsection (1), and substituting the following subsection:

“(1)

Any person convicted on indictment may appeal to the Court of Appeal against—

“(a)

The conviction; or

“(b)

The sentence passed on the conviction (unless the sentence is one fixed by law); or

“(c)

Both.”

This Act is administered in the Department of Justice.

Crimes Amendment Act 1991