(1) There shall continue to be a Society called the New Zealand Law Society (hereinafter referred to as the Society), being the Society constituted under the Law Practitioners Act 1955 and existing at the commencement of this Act.
(2) The Society shall consist of all practitioners who for the time being are members of any District Law Society and hold current practising certificates as barristers or as solicitors or as both.
(3) The Society shall be a body corporate, with perpetual succession and a common seal, and shall be capable of holding real and personal property and of doing and suffering all that bodies corporate may do and suffer.
Compare: 1955 No 101 s 113; 1967 No 128 s 9