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Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006

Miscellaneous provisions - Transitional provision relating to Law Society inspectorate

362: Law Society inspectorate

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"People who check lawyers are doing their job properly"

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You are part of the Law Society inspectorate if you were appointed as an inspector under the Law Practitioners Act 1982. You continue to be an inspector with the same terms and conditions. You are also considered an inspector under the new rules made by the New Zealand Law Society. You can still do your job as an inspector for complaints made before this new law started. You have the same powers as you did under the Law Practitioners Act 1982. The New Zealand Law Society can remove you from your job as an inspector. If you had to pay a fee under the old law, you still have to pay it. The Law Society inspectorate must report to the New Zealand Law Society Council.

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Part 11Miscellaneous provisions
Transitional provision relating to Law Society inspectorate

362Law Society inspectorate

  1. Despite the repeal of the Law Practitioners Act 1982 by this Act, every person who, by virtue of an appointment under section 88A(2)(a) of that Act as an inspector, is, at the commencement of this section, a member of the Law Society inspectorate both—

  2. continues to be, subject to his or her terms and conditions of employment and to subsection (6) of this section, a member of that inspectorate; and
    1. is deemed to be, subject to his or her terms and conditions of employment and to subsection (6), a member of the Law Society inspectorate established by the New Zealand Law Society pursuant to regulations made under section 115 of this Act.

      1. An inspector continued in office by subsection (1)(a) may, in relation to any complaints made or proceedings commenced or reviews or investigations begun before the commencement of this Act, discharge his or her functions and duties under the Law Practitioners Act 1982 and any regulations made under section 91 of that Act.

      2. For the purposes of subsection (2), each inspector to whom that subsection applies has all necessary powers and may exercise, despite the repeals effected by this Act, the rights and powers conferred on the Law Society inspectorate by any regulations made, before the commencement of this section, under section 91 of the Law Practitioners Act 1982.

      3. Subsections (4) to (6) of section 88A of the Law Practitioners Act 1982 continue, despite the repeal of that Act, to have effect in relation to any person continued in office by subsection (1) of this section.

      4. The Law Society inspectorate continued in office by subsection (1) must report on its operations to the Council of the New Zealand Law Society at such times and in such form as may from time to time be required by that Council.

      5. The New Zealand Law Society may remove from the office to which subsection (1)(a) relates or from the office to which subsection (1)(b) relates or from both any inspector continued in office by subsection (1).

      6. The repeal of the Law Practitioners Act 1982 does not affect the liability of any person to pay any fee that, at the commencement of this section, is payable by that person pursuant to a resolution made under section 88A(7) of that Act.