275Powers

1. The Council has all such rights, powers, and authorities as are necessary or expedient for, or conducive to, the performance of its functions.

2. Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the Council has, in addition to the powers conferred on it by this or any other Act, the following powers:

3. subject to this Act, to grant to any candidate for admission as a barrister and solicitor such credits (whether ad eundem or otherwise) or exemptions as it thinks fit, and on such conditions as it thinks fit, for the purposes of any course of study:
4. to encourage and, where the Council thinks it necessary or appropriate, to arrange provision for research and postgraduate study:
5. to charge any person or organisation any reasonable fees it thinks fit in respect of—
   1. any matter the person or organisation submits to the Council for its consideration:
   2. any work or services the Council has done or performed for the person or organisation:
   3. enrolling for or sitting any examination conducted or proposed to be conducted by, or on behalf of, the Council.

6. The Council may, in exercising its powers under subsection (2)(a),—

7. require that a candidate credited or exempted under subsection (2)(a) must pass an examination in the law of New Zealand or in the practice of law in New Zealand or in both; and
8. set and conduct, or arrange for the setting and conducting of, any examination required for the purposes of paragraph (a).