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Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006

Complaints and discipline - Intervention in practice

167: Power of Standards Committee to repay money

You could also call this:

"Getting your money back from a Standards Committee or society"

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You can get your money back if you paid it to a Standards Committee or a society. The Committee or society can repay the money at any time if they choose to. They can put the money back into the same bank account it came from, as stated in section 164(2). You should know that this rule has some conditions. The Committee or society must follow section 168 and any court orders. This means they cannot always repay the money if the court says otherwise. The rules about repayment are important to understand. You can find more information about this in other parts of the law, such as the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006.

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Intervention in practice

167Power of Standards Committee to repay money

  1. Where, under section 164(2) any money is paid to a Standards Committee or the New Zealand Law Society or the New Zealand Society of Conveyancers, that Committee or that Society may at any time, in its discretion, repay the money or any part of it into the bank account from which it was paid.

  2. Subsection (1) is subject to—

  3. section 168; and
    1. any order made by the court under any provision of this Part.

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