New Zealand Acts

HARASSMENT ACT 1997 - SECT 33

33 Copies of orders to be sent to Police

1 This section applies to the following orders made under this Act:

a) a restraining order:

b) any order varying or discharging a restraining order.

2 On the making of an order to which this section applies, the Registrar of the court in which the order is made must ensure that a copy of the order is made available, without delay, to the officer in charge of the Police station nearest to where the person for whose protection the order was made resides.

3 For the purposes of this section, a copy of an order may be made available in any of the following ways:

a) by sending the copy by means of electronic transmission (whether by way of facsimile transmission, electronic mail, or other similar means of communication):

b) by entering the copy on a database maintained in electronic form, where that database may be accessed by the person or persons to whom the copy is required to be made available:

c) by sending the copy by ordinary post:

d) by making the copy available in such manner as is prescribed by rules or regulations made under this Act:

e) by making the copy available in such other manner as is appropriate in the circumstances.

Note: 1995 No 86 s 88