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Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006

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145: Instrument of appointment

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"A document that proves you are allowed to be an investigator under the law."

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When you are appointed as an investigator, the group that appoints you must give you a written document. This document shows you have the authority to act as an investigator under the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006. The document must be signed by at least two members of a certain group, such as the New Zealand Law Society or the New Zealand Society of Conveyancers. If you show this document, it proves you have the authority to act as an investigator. You may be asked to show this document before you can use certain powers, such as those under section 147. When your appointment ends, you must give the document back to the group that appointed you. You get this document after being appointed under section 144(1).

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145Instrument of appointment

  1. The body effecting an appointment under section 144(1) must supply to the person appointed a written instrument of appointment evidencing that the person appointed has the authority vested in an investigator appointed under this Act.

  2. The instrument must be signed by at least 2 members of—

  3. the Council of the New Zealand Law Society; or
    1. the Council of the New Zealand Society of Conveyancers; or
      1. a Standards Committee.

        1. The production by any person of the instrument of appointment supplied to that person under subsection (1) is sufficient proof of that person's authority to act as an investigator appointed under this Act.

        2. Every person appointed as an investigator under this Act must, if so required, produce the instrument of appointment supplied to that person under subsection (1) before exercising any power under section 147.

        3. Every person appointed as an investigator under this Act must, on the termination of his or her appointment, surrender to the body by which he or she was appointed the instrument of appointment supplied to that person under subsection (1).

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