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Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006

New Zealand Society of Conveyancers - Powers

84: Rules relating to education

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"Rules about what you need to learn to become a conveyancer"

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The rules about education can set the qualifications you need to become a conveyancer. They can also define the courses you need to study to become a conveyancer. The rules can provide for how these courses are delivered. The rules can allow the New Zealand Society of Conveyancers to deliver courses. They can also allow other people to deliver courses if they are licensed. The rules can make arrangements for monitoring and assessing these courses. The rules can recognise qualifications from other countries. They can also recognise qualifications for the purposes of the Trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition Act 1997, which is found at https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1986/0120/latest/link.aspx?id=DLM411294. The rules can give you credits or exemptions for courses you have already done. The rules can encourage research and study after you finish your main course. They can also provide advice to universities about educating conveyancers. The rules can require the New Zealand Society of Conveyancers to report to the Minister about the education of conveyancers. The rules can require you to pass an exam in New Zealand law if you get credits or exemptions. They can also allow the New Zealand Society of Conveyancers to charge fees for things like exams or considering your application. The rules can help the New Zealand Society of Conveyancers do its job and achieve its purposes.

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Part 5New Zealand Society of Conveyancers
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84Rules relating to education

  1. The rules referred to in section 82(3) may,—

  2. subject to this Act, set, or provide for the setting of, the qualification and educational requirements for candidates for registration as conveyancers:
    1. subject to this Act, define and prescribe, or provide for the defining and prescribing of, courses of study required to be undertaken by candidates for registration as conveyancers:
      1. provide for the delivery of the courses of study referred to in paragraph (b):
        1. provide for the New Zealand Society of Conveyancers to deliver, where necessary, the courses of study referred to in paragraph (b) or the courses of study referred to in paragraph (e) or both:
          1. provide for the licensing of other persons to deliver courses of study in practical legal training for candidates for registration as conveyancers:
            1. provide for the making of arrangements under which the courses of study referred to in paragraph (b) are to be monitored and assessed:
              1. prescribe, in relation to the registration of conveyancers, mechanisms for—
                1. the recognition of foreign qualifications, registration, and experience; and
                  1. the recognition of qualifications for the purposes of the principle set out in section 15 of the Trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition Act 1997:
                  2. subject to this Act, provide for the granting to any candidate for registration as a conveyancer such credits (whether ad eundem or otherwise) or exemptions as it thinks fit, and on such conditions as it thinks fit, for the purposes of any course of study:
                    1. encourage and, where the New Zealand Society of Conveyancers thinks it necessary or appropriate, provide for research and postgraduate study:
                      1. provide for the tendering of advice to the council of any university on any matter relating to the education of conveyancers:
                        1. provide for the making to the Minister of any reports that the Minister requires relating to the education of conveyancers:
                          1. subject to this Act and any other Act, provide for the New Zealand Society of Conveyancers to do whatever it considers necessary or expedient in order that it may best accomplish the purposes for which it exists.

                            1. Without limiting subsection (1), rules of the kind described in that subsection—

                            2. may require that a candidate credited or exempted under rules of the kind described in subsection (1)(h) must pass an examination in the law of New Zealand relating to conveyancing or in the practice of law in New Zealand relating to conveyancing or in both:
                              1. may provide for the New Zealand Society of Conveyancers to charge any person or organisation reasonable fees in respect of—
                                1. any matter the person or organisation submits to the New Zealand Society of Conveyancers for its consideration:
                                  1. any work or services the New Zealand Society of Conveyancers has done or performed for the person or organisation:
                                    1. enrolling for or sitting any examination conducted or proposed to be conducted by, or on behalf of, the New Zealand Society of Conveyancers.

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