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Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006

Restrictions on provision of legal services and conveyancing services - Conveyancing services

32: Provision of conveyancing services

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"Only licensed people can provide conveyancing services and call themselves lawyers or conveyancers"

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You can get in trouble if you provide conveyancing services in New Zealand and call yourself a lawyer, conveyancing practitioner, conveyancer, or land broker when you are not one. You are also describing yourself as a lawyer if you use certain terms to describe yourself, which are listed in section 21(1)(b). There are some exceptions to this rule, which you can find in section 36 or section 388(3).

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Part 2Restrictions on provision of legal services and conveyancing services
Conveyancing services

32Provision of conveyancing services

  1. A person commits an offence who, not being a lawyer or an incorporated law firm or a conveyancing practitioner or an incorporated conveyancing firm, provides conveyancing services in New Zealand and describes himself or herself as a lawyer, a conveyancing practitioner, a conveyancer, or a land broker.

  2. For the purposes of subsection (1), a person describes himself or herself as a lawyer not only if he or she describes himself or herself as a lawyer but also if he or she uses, in describing himself or herself, any of the terms specified in subparagraphs (ii) to (viii) of section 21(1)(b).

  3. This section is subject to the exceptions set out in section 36 or section 388(3).