New Zealand Legislation: Acts
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(1) The Society may provide, whether by way of financial assistance or otherwise, for the establishment, in such localities as it may from time to time think fit, of law offices or legal advice bureaux, whether it is intended that such offices or bureaux shall be operated by a practitioner or practitioners employed by the Society, or a practitioner or firm of practitioners on his or their own account, or by members of the Society on a voluntary or rostered basis, or otherwise.
(2) The Society may from time to time, as circumstances require and as it may consider necessary or desirable, maintain and operate or subsidise the maintenance and operation of such offices or bureaux to the intent that as full and proper a legal service as may be practicable shall be provided for members of the public in any such locality.
(3) The Council may from time to time, in writing, grant to any body of persons operating or intending to operate a law office or legal advice bureau in any locality in which there is or (but for the office or bureau) would be an unmet legal need, or to any solicitor employed by any such body in any such office or bureau, exemption from all or any of the provisions of sections 64, 66, and 67(1) of this Act; and every such exemption shall have effect according to its tenor.
(4) The Society may, after consultation with the body of persons concerned, impose in respect of any such exemption such conditions as the Society thinks fit, including any condition designed to ensure that, in general, the law office or legal advice bureau does not undertake any class of legal work in respect of which there is no unmet legal need in that locality.
(5) The Society may at any time—
(a) Revoke any exemption granted under subsection (3) of this section; or
(b) Revoke or vary any condition imposed under subsection (4) of this section, or impose any new condition under that subsection.
(6) In this section the expression unmet legal need, in relation to any locality, includes legal work required by residents of the locality which, because of the uneconomic nature of the work or the unavailability of practitioners willing to undertake the work, is not being adequately undertaken by practitioners in the ordinary course of their practice.
Compare: 1955 No 101 s 114(2)(i); 1975 No 35 s 7; 1981 No 54 s 2