New Zealand Legislation: Acts

21A Change of name of District Law Society

• (1) A District Law Society may, with the prior consent of the Council of the New Zealand Law Society, change its name by passing a resolution at a general meeting changing the society's name to such new name as is specified in the resolution.

  (2) Where a resolution to which subsection (1) of this section applies is passed, the District Law Society shall, as soon as possible, publish a copy of that resolution in the Gazette.

  (3) On such publication, the resolution shall have effect to change the name of the District Law Society as from the date of publication or such later date as may be specified in the resolution.

  (4) A change of name by a District Law Society under this section shall not affect any rights or obligations of the society or any of its members, or render defective any legal proceedings by or against the society, and any legal proceedings that might have been continued or commenced against it by its former name may be continued or commenced against it by its new name.

  Section 21A was inserted, as from 29 April 1993, by section 2 Law Practitioners Amendment Act 1993 (1993 No 20).