New Zealand Acts

SENTENCING (REINSTATING THREE STRIKES) AMENDMENT ACT 2024

- As at 17 December 2024
- Act 54 of 2024

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 82A inserted (Additional consequences for certain repeated offending must not be taken into account in determining length of sentence)
   7.      New sections 86J to 86X and cross-heading inserted
   8.      Section 89 amended (Imposition of minimum period of imprisonment)
   9.      Section 103 amended (Imposition of minimum period of imprisonment or imprisonment without parole if life imprisonment imposed for murder)
   10.     Section 104 amended (Imposition of minimum period of imprisonment of 17 years or more)
   11.     Schedule 1AA amended
   12.     New Schedule 1AB inserted

   PART 2 - Amendments to other Acts

           SUBPART 1 - Amendment to Criminal Procedure Act 2011

   13.     Principal Act
   14.     Section 180 amended (Court may correct erroneous sentence)

           SUBPART 2 - Amendments to Criminal Procedure (Mentally Impaired Persons) Act 2003

   15.     Principal Act
   16.     Section 34 amended (Power of court to commit offender to hospital or facility on conviction)
   17.     Schedule 1AA amended

           SUBPART 3 - Amendment to Evidence Act 2006

   18.     Principal Act
   19.     Section 139 amended (Evidence of convictions, acquittals, and other judicial proceedings)

           SUBPART 4 - Amendments to Parole Act 2002

   20.     Principal Act
   21.     Section 20 amended (Parole eligibility date)
   22.     Section 25 amended (Early referral and consideration for parole)
   23.     Section 84 amended (Non-parole periods)
   24.     Schedule 1 amended
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           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           SCHEDULE 4