New Zealand Acts

HARASSMENT ACT 1997 - SECT 32

32 Vexatious proceedings

1 A court may dismiss any proceedings before it under this Act if it is satisfied that they are frivolous or vexatious or an abuse of the procedure of the court.

2 If a court is satisfied that a person has persistently instituted vexatious proceedings under this Act (whether against the same person or against different persons), the court may make an order prohibiting that person from commencing any proceedings under this Act, or proceedings of any specified kind or against any specified person, without the leave of the court.

3 A court must not make an order under subsection (2) prohibiting a person from commencing proceedings without giving that person an opportunity to be heard.

4 Nothing in this section applies in respect of criminal proceedings.

5 Nothing in this section limits any other power of the court to dismiss proceedings.

Note: 1980 No 94 s 163