The New Zealand Council of Legal Education must talk to the New Zealand Law Society. You will see this happen when the Council is deciding how people from other countries can become barristers and solicitors in New Zealand. The Council must also talk to the New Zealand Law Society when they are making their annual budget.

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275: Powers, or

"The Council's job is to help train lawyers and it has the power to make decisions to do this."

277: Levies, or

"Lawyers must pay a yearly fee to help fund legal education"

Part 8New Zealand Council of Legal Education

276Consultation with New Zealand Law Society

The Council must consult the Council of the New Zealand Law Society—
in prescribing under section 274(f) the mechanisms and criteria that will apply in relation to the admission as barristers and solicitors of the High Court of New Zealand of persons who are barristers or solicitors of a senior court of any country other than New Zealand; and
in preparing the annual budget of the Council.

Notes

Section 276(a): amended, on 1 March 2017, by section 183(b) of the Senior Courts Act 2016 (2016 No 48).