New Zealand Acts

IMMIGRATION ACT 2009 - SECT 372

372 Time for filing charging document

1 Despite anything to the contrary in section 25 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 , the limitation period in respect of an offence against this Act ends on the date that is 2 years after the earlier of—

a) the date when the incident, situation, or set of circumstances to which the offence relates first became known to an immigration officer; or

b) the date when the incident, situation, or set of circumstances to which the offence relates should reasonably have become known to an immigration officer.

2 Subsection (1) does not apply to the offences set out in sections 342(1)(b), 343(1)(a), (b), or (c)(i), 345, 348, and 351 .

History: Section 372: replaced, on 1 July 2013, by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).