New Zealand Legislation: Acts
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(1) The Society shall have all such powers, rights, and authorities as are reasonably necessary or expedient for or conducive to the exercise of any of its functions.
(2) Without prejudice to subsection (1) of this section, the Society shall, in addition to any other powers conferred on it by this or any other Act, have the following powers:
(a) To provide or arrange for the provision of services and facilities for practitioners, including seminars and educational and training services and facilities:
(b) To publish or arrange for the publication of such periodicals, pamphlets, or other publications as it may consider of benefit to the public or to practitioners in relation to the practice of the law and the activities of the Society or of District Law Societies:
(c) To oppose any application made for admission as a barrister and solicitor, or any other application made under this Act:
(d) To institute prosecutions against practitioners or other persons for the breach of any statute, rules, or regulations relating to the practice of the law:
(e) To appoint any practitioner to perform any work or services for the Society, or to appear before any court, tribunal, or other body in any of the foregoing matters or in any other matters in which the Society is concerned or interested:
(f) To pay all costs, witnesses' expenses, and other payments incidental to or connected with any application or proceedings to which the Society is a party or at the hearing of which it is entitled to appear:
(g) To pay the whole or any part of the expenses incurred by members in attending meetings of the Council of the Society or meetings of any committee appointed by the Council:
(h) To establish or join in establishing any body, whether incorporated or not and whether in New Zealand or elsewhere, for the purpose of the exercise of any of the Society's functions or powers:
(i) To act in combination or association with, or otherwise co-operate with, any person or body, whether incorporated or not, and whether in New Zealand or elsewhere, for the purpose of the exercise of any of the Society's functions or powers.
(3) Without limiting paragraphs (h) and (i) of subsection (2) of this section, the Society may act in combination or association with, or otherwise co-operate with, any body, whether incorporated or not, having in relation to the legal profession in any country other than New Zealand broadly the same purposes and objects as the Society has in relation to that profession in New Zealand, for the purpose of assisting that body to perform in that country any function referred to in any of paragraphs (a), (e), and (f) of section 4(1) of this Act.
Compare: 1955 No 101 s 114(2)(d)-(h)