Part 11Miscellaneous provisions
Transitional provisions in respect of complaints and disciplinary proceedings
356Exercise by Lawyers Standards Committee of role of complaints committee
If any proceedings to which section 353 applies have not been determined by the close of the period of 6 months beginning with the date of the commencement of this section, the New Zealand Law Society must, despite the repeals effected by this Act, appoint a Lawyers Standards Committee (not being a Lawyers Standards Committee that has under section 357 the powers of a District Disciplinary Tribunal in relation to those proceedings) to carry out the duties and exercise the powers that a complaints committee appointed pursuant to section 100 of the Law Practitioners Act 1982 would have had, under that Act, in relation to those proceedings if that Act had not been repealed and the relevant complaint or matter had been referred to it.