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Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006

New Zealand Council of Legal Education

274: Functions

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The New Zealand Council of Legal Education has several jobs. You can think of these jobs as tasks they must complete. They set the qualifications and education requirements for people who want to become lawyers. The Council decides what courses people must take to become lawyers. They also arrange for these courses to be taught or teach them themselves. They provide training in practical legal skills for people who want to become lawyers. The Council checks that the courses are being taught correctly and assesses them. They also decide how to recognise qualifications from other countries. You can read more about this in section 15 of the Trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition Act 1997. The Council gives advice to universities about legal education. They also investigate and report on legal education matters when the Minister asks them to.

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Part 8New Zealand Council of Legal Education

274Functions

  1. The functions of the Council are,—

  2. subject to this Act, to set the qualification and educational requirements for candidates for admission as barristers and solicitors of the High Court:
    1. subject to this Act, to define, prescribe, and approve, from time to time and as it thinks fit, the courses of study required to be undertaken by candidates for admission as barristers and solicitors:
      1. to arrange for the delivery of the courses of study referred to in paragraph (b) or to provide those courses where necessary:
        1. to deliver courses of study in practical legal training for candidates for admission as barristers and solicitors or to license other persons to deliver those courses:
          1. to arrange for the courses of study referred to in paragraph (b) to be monitored and assessed:
            1. to prescribe, in relation to the admission of barristers and solicitors, mechanisms and criteria for—
              1. the recognition of foreign qualifications, registration, and experience; and
                1. the recognition of qualifications for the purposes of the principle set out in section 15 of the Trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition Act 1997:
                2. to tender advice to the council of any university on any matter relating to legal education:
                  1. to inquire into, consider, and report to the Minister on any matter relating to legal education as the Minister may, from time to time, require.

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