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Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006

Conduct of practice by practitioners - Practice rules and regulations

104: Power of Minister to amend rules

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"The Minister can change rules to make them better."

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The Minister can change rules if they think the rules are not good enough. The Minister can only make changes to things that the rules are allowed to cover. You can find out more about how these changes are published in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. The Minister must talk to the group that made the rules before making any changes. The Minister can also talk to other people or groups if they want to. When the Minister makes changes to the rules, it is called secondary legislation.

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Practice rules and regulations

104Power of Minister to amend rules

  1. If the Minister considers any rules to which section 100 applies to be deficient in any respect, the Minister may, subject to subsections (2) and (3), make such amendments to those rules as are necessary to remedy the deficiency.

  2. Amendments made under subsection (1) to rules to which section 100 applies may relate only to matters in respect of which rules under section 81(2)(a) or practice rules, as the case may require, may be made.

  3. The Minister, in deciding whether to make amendments under subsection (1) to any rules,—

  4. must consult the council by which the rules were made; and
    1. may consult such other persons or groups as the Minister thinks fit.

      1. An instrument that amends rules under this section is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

      Notes
      • Section 104(4): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).