379Records relating to regulatory activities

1. Every District Law Society to which section 372 applies must, before it is dissolved by section 372(b), transfer to the New Zealand Law Society all records that are held by the District Law Society and relate to the regulatory activities of the District Law Society under the Law Practitioners Act 1982 or any corresponding former Act, including, in particular, all documents relating to—

2. the admission and enrolment of barristers and solicitors:
3. the striking off the roll, or the restoration to the roll, of the names of practitioners:
4. the removal of the name of any practitioner from the roll of barristers and solicitors:
5. the issue and currency of practising certificates as barristers, or as barristers and solicitors:
6. the withholding of practising certificates as barristers, or as barristers and solicitors:
7. the suspension from practice of practitioners practising within the District Law Society's district:
8. the payment of practising fees:
9. the commission of offences against the Law Practitioners Act 1982 or any corresponding former Act:
10. the exercise under sections 70 to 78 of the Law Practitioners Act 1982, or the corresponding provisions of any former Act, of the powers of the Council of the District Law Society:
11. the operation of Part 5 of the Law Practitioners Act 1982 (which relates to intervention in solicitor's practice) or the corresponding provisions of any former Act:
12. the operation of Part 6 of the Law Practitioners Act 1982 (which relates to solicitors' trust accounts), or the corresponding provisions of any former Act:
13. the operation of Part 7 of the Law Practitioners Act 1982 (which relates to discipline within the legal profession) or the corresponding provisions of any former Act:
14. the operation of Part 8 of the Law Practitioners Act 1982 (which relates to practitioners' costs) or the corresponding provisions of any former Act:
15. the operation of Part 9 of the Law Practitioners Act 1982 (which relates to the Solicitors' Fidelity Guarantee Fund).

16. Where any records of the kind referred to in subsection (1) are the property of a District Law Society, those records become the property of the New Zealand Law Society as from—

17. the date on which they are transferred to the New Zealand Law Society pursuant to subsection (1); or
18. if they are not transferred to the New Zealand Law Society before the dissolution of the District Law Society, as from the close of the period of 6 months beginning with the date of the commencement of section 372.

19. In this section, document means a document in any form, whether signed or initialled or otherwise authenticated by its maker or not, and includes—

20. any writing on any material:
21. any information recorded or stored by means of any tape-recorder, computer, or other device, and any material subsequently derived from information so recorded or stored:
22. any label, marking, or other writing that identifies or describes any thing of which it forms part, or to which it is attached by any means:
23. any book, map, plan, graph, or drawing:
24. any photograph, film, negative, tape, or other device in which 1 or more visual images are embodied so as to be capable (with or without the aid of some other equipment) of being reproduced.