New Zealand Legislation: Acts

3 Purposes

• (1) The purposes of this Act are—

  • (a) to maintain public confidence in the provision of legal services and conveyancing services:

  • (b) to protect the consumers of legal services and conveyancing services:

  • (c) to recognise the status of the legal profession and to establish the new profession of conveyancing practitioner.

  (2) To achieve those purposes, this Act, among other things,—

  • (a) reforms the law relating to lawyers:

  • (b) provides for a more responsive regulatory regime in relation to lawyers and conveyancers:

  • (c) enables conveyancing to be carried out both—

    • (i) by lawyers; and

    • (ii) by conveyancing practitioners:

  • (d) states the fundamental obligations with which, in the public interest, all lawyers and all conveyancing practitioners must comply in providing regulated services:

  • (e) repeals the Law Practitioners Act 1982.