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Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006

Miscellaneous provisions - Transitional provisions relating to dissolution of District Law Societies

375: Power of incorporated society to provide law library

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"Law societies can share law libraries with courts and lawyers"

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You can think of a District Law Society as a group of lawyers. If this group has a library with law books, and it becomes part of another group, the new group can keep the library. The new group can have libraries in different towns in New Zealand. They decide who can use these libraries, like the High Court or other courts, and lawyers. You can use these libraries if you are allowed to by the group that manages them. They decide how the libraries are run. The libraries must be available for the High Court, other courts, and lawyers to use, as directed by the group managing them.

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Part 11Miscellaneous provisions
Transitional provisions relating to dissolution of District Law Societies

375Power of incorporated society to provide law library

  1. If the assets of a District Law Society that become, under section 373(1), the assets of an incorporated society named in a resolution made under section 373(1) include the assets of a law library provided and maintained by a District Law Society under section 26(2) of the Law Practitioners Act 1982, the incorporated society so named may continue to provide and maintain law libraries in such towns in New Zealand as the governing body of that incorporated society directs.

  2. Every library provided and maintained under subsection (1) is to be for the use of the High Court and such other courts as the governing body of the incorporated society so named directs, and of lawyers, and must be managed as that governing body directs.

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