New Zealand Legislation: Acts

26 Functions and powers of District Law Societies

• (1) Subject to this Act and to the rules of the New Zealand Law Society, every District Law Society shall have within its district the same functions and powers as the New Zealand Law Society has under this Part of this Act, except the power to impose levies under section 9 of this Act.

  (2) Every District Law Society shall also have the function of providing and maintaining law libraries in such towns in its district as the District Council directs.

  (3) Every such library shall be for the use of the High Court and such other Courts as the District Council directs, and of practitioners, and shall be managed as the District Council directs.

  Compare: 1955 No 101 s 108(1), (2)