New Zealand Legislation: Acts

49 Qualifications

• (1) A person is qualified for admission as a barrister and solicitor if he or she is in at least 1 of the categories in this section.

  (2) The first category is persons who—

  • (a) have all the qualifications for admission prescribed or required by the New Zealand Council of Legal Education; and

  • (b) are fit and proper persons to be admitted as barristers and solicitors of the High Court; and

  • (c) meet the criteria prescribed by rules made under section 54.

  (3) The second category is persons who—

  • (a) have been admitted as a barrister, solicitor, barrister and solicitor, advocate, or attorney by the superior court of any other country; and

  • (b) have all the qualifications prescribed or required by the New Zealand Council of Legal Education in consultation with the Council of the New Zealand Law Society; and

  • (c) are fit and proper persons to be admitted as barristers and solicitors of the High Court; and

  • (d) meet the criteria prescribed by rules made under section 54.

  (4) The third category is persons who have been issued with a certificate by a Registrar stating that the candidate has given notice under section 19 of the Trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition Act 1997 to the Registrar acting as a local registration authority under that Act.

  Compare: 1982 No 123 s 44