CRIMINAL OFFENCES IN COOK ISLANDS
P.A. WELLINGTON, Oct. 14. The Cook Islands Amendment Bill, introduced in the House of Representatives to-day, provides a penalty of five years’ imprisonment with hard labour for the unlawful entry of a dwelling house by night with intent to commit a criminal offence or for being found by night in any dwelling house without lawful justification. A similar penalty is prescribed for threats to do bodily harm. Another removes the limit of £1 a week on maintenance orders.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26903, 15 October 1948, Page 5
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