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Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006

Complaints and discipline - General provisions in relation to Standards Committees

189: Enforcement of orders

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"What happens if you don't follow an order from a Standards Committee"

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You can be given an order by a Standards Committee. This order still applies even if you stop being a practitioner. The Committee can make decisions based on the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006. You might be ordered to pay a fine or expenses to the New Zealand Law Society or the New Zealand Society of Conveyancers. This amount of money is owed to the society and they can recover it from you. You owe this money even if you are no longer a practitioner. The rules about this are similar to rules from the past, such as the one found in s 13 of a 1986 act.

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Part 7Complaints and discipline
General provisions in relation to Standards Committees

189Enforcement of orders

  1. If a Standards Committee, acting in accordance with this Act or any rules made under this Act, makes an order or otherwise exercises any power in respect of any person who is or was a practitioner, that order or other exercise of any power has effect whether or not that person remains a practitioner.

  2. If a Standards Committee, acting in accordance with this Act or any rules made under this Act, orders any person who is or was a practitioner or an incorporated firm or an employee of a practitioner or an incorporated firm to pay a fine, expenses, or other monetary amount to the New Zealand Law Society or the New Zealand Society of Conveyancers, that amount is recoverable from that person by the society to which it is ordered to be paid as a debt due to that society, whether or not that person remains a practitioner or an incorporated firm or an employee of a practitioner or an incorporated firm.

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