Disputes Tribunal Act 1988

Miscellaneous provisions

55: Registrar to provide assistance

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"Get help with Tribunal forms and processes from a Registrar"

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You can get help from a Registrar or their staff when you need to fill out forms for the Tribunal. They will assist you with forms for lodging a claim, applying for a rehearing, or appealing an order. You can also get help with enforcing an order or an agreed settlement in the Tribunal or the District Court.

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Part 5Miscellaneous provisions

55Registrar to provide assistance

A Registrar shall ensure that assistance is reasonably available, either from that Registrar himself or herself, or from that Registrar's staff, to any person who seeks it in completing the forms required by this Act, or by any rules made under this Act, in relation to the lodging of a claim in the Tribunal, an application for a rehearing, an appeal against an order or approval or variation made or given by the Tribunal, or the enforcement of an order or an agreed settlement in the Tribunal or in the District Court.

Notes

Section 55: amended, on 1 March 2017, by section 261 of the District Court Act 2016 (2016 No 49).