Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006

Miscellaneous provisions - Transitional provisions in respect of complaints and disciplinary proceedings

358: Exercise by New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal of role of New Zealand Law Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal

You could also call this:

"Tribunal takes over unfinished cases after 6 months"

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You need to know about a special rule. If some cases are not finished after 6 months, the New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal takes over. It does the job of the New Zealand Law Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal, which was set up under the Law Practitioners Act 1982. This happens even though the Law Practitioners Act 1982 is no longer in force. When the New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal is doing this job, it has the same duties and powers as the New Zealand Law Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal would have had. However, there is an exception: conveyancers cannot be part of the tribunal when it is doing this job. The tribunal is still in charge of these cases, but it must follow the rules and not include conveyancers in its decisions.

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357: Exercise by Lawyers Standards Committee of role of District Disciplinary Tribunal, or

"Lawyers Standards Committee acts like a court for unfinished cases"

359: Appeal from decision of District Disciplinary Tribunal or Lawyers Standards Committee exercising powers of District Disciplinary Tribunal, or

"Appealing a decision made by a disciplinary tribunal or committee"

Part 11Miscellaneous provisions
Transitional provisions in respect of complaints and disciplinary proceedings

358Exercise by New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal of role of New Zealand Law Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal

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, then, from the close of that period, the New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal has, despite the repeals effected by this Act, the duties and powers that the New Zealand Law Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal established under the Law Practitioners Act 1982 would have had, under that Act, in relation to those proceedings if that Act had not been repealed.
Despite subsection (1), no conveyancer may sit as a member of the New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal when it is carrying out the duties or exercising the powers of the New Zealand Law Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal.