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Crimes Amendment Act 1994-95

COOK ISLANDS

CRIMES AMENDMENT ACT 1994-95

ANALYSIS

Title

1. Short Title
2. Established business, trade or occupation

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1994-95, No. 34

An Act to amend the Crimes Act 1969

(30 June 1995

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 1994-95 and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Crimes Act 1969 (hereinafter referred to as "the principal Act").

2. Established business, trade or occupation - Section 169 of the principal Act is amended, by adding the following proviso -

"Provided always that no offence shall be committed under this section where the condition complained of arises out of an established business or occupation carried out on those premises by a person who can establish to the Court that reasonable steps are being taken in accordance with accepted practice in that business or occupation, to minimise the annoyance."

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This Act is administered in the Justice Department.