Motor Vehicle Sales Act 2003

Enforcement - Motor Vehicle Disputes Tribunals - Panel

88: Panel of persons who may be appointed as assessors

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"People the Minister chooses to help solve motor vehicle disputes"

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The Minister keeps a list of people who can help with disputes about motor vehicles. You can be on this list for up to 5 years. The Minister chooses people for the list based on their skills and knowledge. The Minister looks at a person's attributes, qualifications, and skills when deciding if they can be on the list. The Minister also thinks about whether the people on the list have a good mix of knowledge and experience. If you are on the list, your name might be removed if you die, are adjudged bankrupt under the Insolvency Act 2006, or cannot do the job. Your name can also be removed if the time you were allowed to be on the list has ended, or if you ask to be removed. If your name is removed, you can still finish any work you have started. This means you can keep working on a case you have already started, even if your time on the list has ended.

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87: Adjudicator to submit annual report, or

"The adjudicator must send a yearly report to the Minister about disputes dealt with."

89: Jurisdiction of Disputes Tribunal, or

Part 4Enforcement
Motor Vehicle Disputes Tribunals: Panel

88Panel of persons who may be appointed as assessors

The Minister must maintain a panel of any number of persons that may be required to ensure the efficient and expeditious exercise of the jurisdiction of the Disputes Tribunals throughout New Zealand.
The Minister must specify a period of up to 5 years for which a person is approved as a member of the panel.
The Minister may approve the inclusion of a person on the panel for further periods of up to 5 years.
In considering the suitability of any person for inclusion on the panel, the Minister must have regard to—
the person's personal attributes, qualifications, and skills; and
the need for persons included on the panel to have between them knowledge of, or experience in, the different aspects of matters likely to come before the Disputes Tribunal.

Repealed
However, the name of a person must be removed from the panel if—
the person dies or is adjudged bankrupt under the Insolvency Act 2006; or
the Minister directs that the name of the person be removed from the panel for inability to perform the duties of an assessor; or
the period during which the person's name may be included on the panel has expired; or
the person requests by writing addressed to the Minister that the person's name be removed.

If subsection (4)(c) or (d) applies, the person may continue in office for the purpose of completing any proceedings that are partly or wholly heard.

Notes

Section 88(1): replaced, on 14 November 2018, by section 166(1) of the Tribunals Powers and Procedures Legislation Act 2018 (2018 No 51).
Section 88(1A): inserted, on 14 November 2018, by section 166(1) of the Tribunals Powers and Procedures Legislation Act 2018 (2018 No 51).
Section 88(1B): inserted, on 14 November 2018, by section 166(1) of the Tribunals Powers and Procedures Legislation Act 2018 (2018 No 51).
Section 88(3): repealed, on 14 November 2018, by section 166(2) of the Tribunals Powers and Procedures Legislation Act 2018 (2018 No 51).
Section 88(4)(a): amended, on 3 December 2007, by section 445 of the Insolvency Act 2006 (2006 No 55).
Section 88(5): replaced, on 14 November 2018, by section 166(3) of the Tribunals Powers and Procedures Legislation Act 2018 (2018 No 51).