New Zealand Legislation: Acts

21 Amalgamation of districts

• (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3) of this section, any 2 or more District Law Societies (in this section referred to as participating societies) may, with the prior consent of the Council of the New Zealand Law Society, agree in writing to amalgamate their districts.

  (2) No such agreement shall come into force until—

  • (a) Every participating society has ratified it by resolution passed at a general meeting of the society; and

  • (b) A copy of the agreement, together with notice of every such ratification, has been published in the Gazette.

  (3) Every such agreement shall make provision for—

  • (a) The transfer to one of the participating societies (in this section referred to as the continuing society) of the property and liabilities of the other or others of the participating societies; and

  • (b) The dissolution, without any further formal act, of each of the participating societies, other than the continuing society; and

  • (c) The continuation or alteration, as the case may be, of the name of the continuing society; and

  • (d) Such alterations (if any) of the rules of the continuing society as are necessary or desirable to ensure that the amalgamation shall be fully and effectively carried out and as may be lawfully made under section 27 of this Act; and

  • (e) All such incidental, consequential, and supplementary matters as are necessary or desirable to ensure that the amalgamation shall be fully and effectively carried out.

  (4) In this section the term property includes property, rights, powers, and functions of every description; and the term liabilities includes duties.

  (5) On publication in accordance with subsection (2)(b) of this section, every person who, by virtue of section 23 of this Act, is a member of one of the participating societies (other than the continuing society) shall become a member of the continuing society, subject to that section.

  Compare: 1955 No 101 s 103A; 1975 No 35 s 6