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Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006

Complaints and discipline - Intervention in practice

179: Notification of practitioner or former practitioner, partner, employer, or director

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"Notifying people involved when a Standards Committee receives information"

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When a Standards Committee gets money, records, or emails under certain sections of the law, such as sections 164, 169, 170, and 172, they must tell the person or people involved right away. You will get a notice if you are the practitioner or former practitioner, or if you are a partner, employer, or director of the person involved. The notice will say how much money was received or what records, documents, or emails were received, and when they were received.

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Part 7Complaints and discipline
Intervention in practice

179Notification of practitioner or former practitioner, partner, employer, or director

  1. A Standards Committee must, on receiving any money or any records or documents or postal articles or email communications under any provision of sections 164, 169, 170, and 172, forthwith serve a notice on—

  2. the practitioner or former practitioner or related person or entity concerned; and
    1. if the practitioner or former practitioner concerned is a partner in a firm of practitioners, each partner in the firm; and
      1. if the practitioner or former practitioner concerned is or was an employee, his or her employer; and
        1. if the practitioner or former practitioner concerned is, or has been, providing regulated services to the public in his or her capacity as a shareholder or director of a body corporate, every director of that body corporate.

          1. The notice must set out,—

          2. in relation to any money received, the amount of that money and the date of receipt; or
            1. in relation to any records, documents, postal articles, and emails received, both particulars of each item and the date of receipt of each item.

              1. The notice may be served by—

              2. delivering it personally to the practitioner, former practitioner, related person or entity, partner, employer, or director or, if he or she refuses to accept it, bringing it to his or her attention; or
                1. delivering it to any of those persons at his or her usual place of residence or business by any form of prepaid delivery service that requires an acknowledgement of receipt of delivery from the person named in the notice.

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                  Notes
                  • Section 179(1)(b): amended, on , by section 116(1) of the Tribunals Powers and Procedures Legislation Act 2018 (2018 No 51).
                  • Section 179(3): replaced, on , by section 116(2) of the Tribunals Powers and Procedures Legislation Act 2018 (2018 No 51).