257Reimbursement of costs of hearing

1. Except where any regulations made under this Act otherwise provide, where the Disciplinary Tribunal hears a charge against any person,—

2. the New Zealand Law Society must, if that person is a lawyer or a former lawyer or an incorporated law firm or former incorporated law firm or an employee or former employee of a lawyer or incorporated law firm, pay into a Crown Bank Account the amount required to reimburse the Crown for the costs of the hearing; and
3. the New Zealand Society of Conveyancers must, if that person is a conveyancing practitioner or a former conveyancing practitioner or an incorporated conveyancing firm or former incorporated conveyancing firm or an employee or former employee of a conveyancing practitioner or incorporated conveyancing firm, pay into a Crown Bank Account the amount required to reimburse the Crown for the costs of the hearing.

4. The costs of the hearing—

5. include not only out-of-pocket expenses in relation to the hearing but also a reasonable sum in respect of—
   1. the remuneration and allowances payable under clause 4 of Schedule 4 to the chairperson, deputy chairperson, and lay members of the Disciplinary Tribunal; and
   2. the costs of the accommodation and the administrative and secretarial services provided to the Disciplinary Tribunal by the Ministry of Justice; but
6. do not include any part of the costs of the hearing that are, under any order made by the Disciplinary Tribunal, recovered by the Tribunal from any other person.

7. The amount payable under subsection (1)(a) and the amount payable under subsection (1)(b) are to be fixed in each case by the chairperson of the Disciplinary Tribunal.