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Crimes Amendment Act 1986

COOK ISLANDS

CRIMES AMENDMENT ACT 1986

ANALYSIS

Title

1. Short Title
2. Laying poison
3. Taking or dealing with certain documents with intent to defraud

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1986, No. 9

An Act to amend the Crimes Act 1969

(24 July 1986

BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of the Cook Islands in Session assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. Short Title - This Act may be cited as the Crimes Amendment Act 1986, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Crimes Act 1969 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2. Laying poison - The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing section 166, and substituting the following section:

"166. Laying poison - Everyone commits an offence, and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to a fine not exceeding $1,000 or to both, who, without lawful justification, the proof of which shall lie on the defendant, places any poison in any public place or any other place accessible to the public (whether fenced or not)."

3. Taking or dealing with certain documents with intent to defraud - The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after section 251, the following section:

"251A. Taking or dealing with certain documents with intent to defraud - Everyone is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years, who, with intent to defraud -

(a) Takes or obtains any document that is capable of being used to obtain any privilege, benefit, pecuniary advantage, or valuable consideration; or

(b) Uses or attempts to use any such document for the purposes of obtaining, for himself or for any other person, any privilege, benefit, pecuniary advantage, or valuable consideration."

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