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Cook Islands Amendment (No 3) Act 1970

COOK ISLANDS

COOK ISLANDS AMENDMENT (No 3) ACT 1970

ANALYSIS

Title
1. Short Title
2. New sections substituted
3. Discharge of jury and new trial
4. Further sections repealed
5. Consequential amendment
6. Consequential repeal

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1970, No. 5

An Act to amend the provisions of the Cook Islands Act 1915 relating to criminal trials by the High Court

(28 August 1970

BE IT ENACTED by the Legislative Assembly 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 Cook Islands Amendment (No. 3) Act 1970 and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Cook Islands Act 1915 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2. New sections substituted - The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing sections 290 to 293 and substituting the following sections:-

"290. Constitution of Court on criminal trials - Every criminal trial in the High Court shall take place before one Judge of that Court sitting with or without a jury in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the Juries Act 1968.

291. Judge with jury - Notwithstanding any other provision in any law, the trial of any person for any offence punishable by death or by imprisonment for more than five years shall take place in Rarotonga and shall be by the Judge with a jury.

292. Judge without jury - On the trial of any person or any offence punishable only by fine or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or by both the Judge shall sit without a jury."

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