BIGAMY ILLEGAL.
* DOMINION LAW GOOD. APPEAL COURT DECISION. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Court of Appeal this morning delivered reserved judgment in the case ot Rex. v. Jackson, in which the validity of the New Zealand law on the subject of bigamy was questioned by a recent decision of the Chief Justice, who held that Section 224 of the Crimes Act, 1908, could not be severed by striking out the words "in any part of the world," and the whole section was bad. It was suggested that Parliament might pass a law declaring that the present section was for the good government of New Zealand, and make it binding on all Courts. The judges sitting this morning dealt with the question as purely one of construction, and that if the words "in any part of the world" were left out there would still be left a perfectly complete definition of which was operative in New Zealand, like all the rest of the Crimes Act, and, further, that the Acts Interpretation Act entitled the Court to apply the words distinctively to New Zealand. The order of the Supreme Court quashing the indictment was set aside j and a new trial on the indictment was ordered.
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 170, 18 July 1919, Page 5
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