357Exercise by Lawyers Standards Committee of role of District Disciplinary Tribunal

1. 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 356, the powers of a complaints committee in relation to those proceedings) to carry out the duties and exercise the powers that a District Disciplinary Tribunal within the meaning of the Law Practitioners Act 1982 would have had, under that Act, in relation to those proceedings if that Act had not been repealed.

2. Section 106(4) of the Law Practitioners Act 1982 has effect, for the purposes of subsection (1) of this section, as if, for the words District Law Society in both places where they appear, there were substituted in each case the words New Zealand Law Society.