Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006

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

376: Power to contribute to funding of law libraries

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"The New Zealand Law Society can help fund law libraries with money for 5 years."

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You can think of the New Zealand Law Society as a group that helps lawyers. This group can give money to law libraries for 5 years after a certain time. The law libraries get money to help them provide books and information to people. The New Zealand Law Society is using a special power to give this money, which is like a rule that says they can do this. You might see this power mentioned in other parts of the law, like in sections 67, 73, and 74, which are related to how the New Zealand Law Society works. When the New Zealand Law Society gives money to law libraries, it is like they are using a regulatory power, which is a type of rule that helps them make decisions. This power is used during a specific time period, which starts after a certain date mentioned in section 373(1) and section 375(1).

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375: Power of incorporated society to provide law library, or

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

377: Members to have no right to property on dissolution of incorporated society, or

"When a society ends, its members can't keep its property."

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

376Power to contribute to funding of law libraries

The New Zealand Law Society may from time to time, in the period of 5 years beginning with the close of the period of 6 months referred to in section 373(1), contribute to the funding of law libraries provided and maintained under section 375(1).
For the purposes of sections 67, 73(3), and 74, the exercise by the New Zealand Law Society in the period referred to in subsection (1) of the power conferred on that Society by that subsection is deemed to be the exercise by that Society of a regulatory power.