258Enforcement of orders of Disciplinary Tribunal

1. Where the Disciplinary Tribunal, 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 the Disciplinary Tribunal, 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.

3. If the Disciplinary Tribunal, acting in accordance with this Act or any rules made under this Act, orders the New Zealand Law Society or the New Zealand Society of Conveyancers or any person to pay a fine, expenses, or other monetary amount to any other person, that amount is recoverable in any court of competent jurisdiction from that society or person by that other person as a debt due to that person.

4. If the Disciplinary Tribunal makes an order under this Part, not being an order to which section 255 applies, the order may be filed in an office of the High Court or, in the case of an order to pay any amount referred to in subsection (2) or (2A), in the office of any court of competent jurisdiction.

5. On the filing of the order it takes effect as if it were an order of the court in which it was filed to the like effect made within its jurisdiction.