New Zealand Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

WATER SERVICES ENTITIES ACT 2022 - SECT 444

444 Limitation period for prosecutions brought by Director of Compliance and Enforcement

1 Despite section 25 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 , proceedings for an offence under this Act may be brought by the Director of Compliance and Enforcement within the later of the following periods to occur:

a) within 12 months after the date on which the incident, situation, or set of circumstances to which the offence relates first became known, or ought reasonably to have become known, to the Director of Compliance and Enforcement:

b) within 6 months after the date on which a coroner completes and signs a certificate of findings under section 94 of the Coroners Act 2006 if it appears from the certificate of findings (or the proceedings of an inquiry) that an offence has been committed under this Act.

2 Subsection (1) applies subject to section 446 .

Note: 2015 No 70 s 146 ; 2021 No 36 s 162

History: Section 444: inserted, on 31 August 2023, by section 34 of the Water Services Legislation Act 2023 (2023 No 52).