New Zealand Acts

SENTENCING (REFORM) AMENDMENT ACT 2025

- As at 29 March 2025
- Act 13 of 2025

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   1.      Title
   2.      Commencement

   PART 1 - Amendments to Sentencing Act 2002

   3.      Principal Act
   4.      Section 4 amended (Interpretation)
   5.      Section 8 amended (Principles of sentencing or otherwise dealing with offenders)
   6.      New section 8A and cross-headings inserted
   7.      Section 9 amended (Aggravating and mitigating factors)
   8.      Cross-heading above section 9A amended
   9.      Section 9A amended (Cases involving violence against, or neglect of, child under 14 years)
   10.     New sections 9B to 9T and cross-headings inserted
   11.     Section 18 replaced (Limit on imprisonment of person under 18 years)
   12.     Section 19 amended (Permitted combinations of sentences)
   13.     Section 31 amended (General requirement to give reasons)
   14.     New section 80GA inserted (Arrest without warrant if home detention residence no longer available or suitable)
   15.     New section 80ZLA inserted (Arrest of offender failing to attend judicial monitoring hearing)
   16.     Section 84 amended (Guidance on use of cumulative and concurrent sentences of imprisonment)
   17.     Section 106 amended (Discharge without conviction)
   18.     Section 123B amended (Protection order)
   19.     New section 142R inserted (Forfeiture of weapons)
   20.     Schedule 1AA amended

   PART 2 - Amendment to Family Court Rules 2002

   21.     Principal rules
   22.     Rule 431B amended (Information requested by sentencing court for purposes of section 123B of Sentencing Act 2002)
           New Part 6 inserted into Schedule 1AA of Sentencing Act 2002