New Zealand Legislation: Acts

28 Proceedings in respect of offences against any provision of sections 21 to 24

• (1) An information in respect of an offence against any provision of sections 21 to 24 may be laid only—

  • (a) by the President of the New Zealand Law Society; or

  • (b) by a person authorised by the Council of the New Zealand Law Society to lay that information.

  (2) In any proceedings for an offence against any provision of sections 21 to 24, a certificate purporting to be signed by the executive director of the New Zealand Law Society or a person authorised by the Council of the New Zealand Law Society to sign that certificate and stating that at any time or during any period specified in the certificate any person was not, and was not deemed to be, the holder of a current practising certificate as a barrister, or as a barrister and solicitor, as the case may require,—

  • (a) is admissible in evidence; and

  • (b) is, in the absence of proof to the contrary, sufficient evidence of the matters stated in it.

  (3) The production of a certificate for the purposes of subsection (2) purporting to be signed by the executive director of the New Zealand Law Society or a person authorised by the Council of the New Zealand Law Society to sign that certificate is prima facie evidence of the certificate without proof of the signature of the person purporting to have signed it.

  Compare: 1982 No 123 s 56(5), (6)(a)