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Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006

New Zealand Council of Legal Education

281: Institute of Professional Legal Studies

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"Training for People Who Want to be Lawyers"

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The New Zealand Council of Legal Education has a committee called the Institute of Professional Legal Studies. You know this committee is already set up under the Law Practitioners Act 1982, which you can find at https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1986/0120/latest/link.aspx?id=DLM62838. The Council must keep this committee and make sure it keeps providing practical legal training for people who want to become barristers and solicitors. The Council can stop the Institute of Professional Legal Studies if it gets permission from the Minister. This can happen if the Council is happy that other people can provide the necessary training. The Council can also set up a new body to do similar things to the Institute of Professional Legal Studies. The Council can transfer some of its funds and property to this new body. Alternatively, the Council can sell the Institute's business and property to someone who can provide the necessary training.

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Part 8New Zealand Council of Legal Education

281Institute of Professional Legal Studies

  1. Subject to subsection (2), the Council—

  2. must continue to maintain, as a committee of the Council, the committee known as the Institute of Professional Legal Studies (which committee is, at the commencement of this section, established under that name under section 40 of the Law Practitioners Act 1982); and
    1. must ensure that the Institute of Professional Legal Studies continues to provide practical legal training for candidates for admission as barristers and solicitors of the High Court.

      1. The Council may, with the consent of the Minister,—

      2. proceed to disestablish the Institute of Professional Legal Studies and any branches of that institute if the Council is satisfied that satisfactory arrangements can be made for the provision by other persons of the practical legal training required by candidates for admission as barristers and solicitors of the High Court; or
        1. proceed—
          1. to disestablish the Institute of Professional Legal Studies and any branches of that institute; and
            1. to establish or incorporate, or to join in establishing or incorporating, a body, whether corporate or not, that has, among other things, the capacity to carry out functions and activities comparable to those that, at the commencement of this section, are being discharged and carried out by the Institute of Professional Legal Studies; and
              1. to transfer to any body corporate of the kind referred to in subparagraph (ii), on such terms and conditions as the Council thinks fit, such of the funds of the Council and such of the other property of the Council as the Council considers appropriate, having regard to the manner in which the Council may be required to discharge its own functions; or
              2. proceed—
                1. to disestablish the Institute of Professional Legal Studies and any branches of that institute; and
                  1. to sell, on such terms and conditions as the Council thinks fit, the business conducted by the Institute of Professional Legal Studies and its branches (if any), and all or any of the property of the Council used in that business, if the Council is satisfied that the purchaser has the capacity to provide the practical legal training required by candidates for admission as barristers and solicitors of the High Court.