New Zealand Legislation: Acts

53 Reciprocal admission

• (1) Where the Governor-General is satisfied—

  • (a) that the law relating to the admission of barristers or solicitors of the superior court of any country other than New Zealand is such as to ensure that they possess proper qualifications and competence; and

  • (b) that by the law of that country barristers and solicitors of the High Court of New Zealand will be entitled to admission as barristers or as solicitors of that superior court on terms as favourable as those on which barristers or solicitors of that court will under this Act be entitled to admission as barristers and solicitors of the High Court of New Zealand,—

  the Governor-General may, by Order in Council, order that barristers or solicitors of that superior court who have been in practice before that court for not less than 3 years must, on giving due notice and the prescribed proof of their qualifications and good character, and on payment of the prescribed fees, but subject to any exceptions, conditions, and modifications specified in the order, be admitted as barristers and solicitors of the High Court of New Zealand without examination.

  (2) Any such order may refer to barristers only, or to solicitors only, or to barristers and solicitors, of any such country.

  (3) Every person admitted under any such order is deemed to have been duly admitted under this Act.

  (4) By the same or any subsequent order, the Governor-General may provide for all matters authorised by this section to be prescribed, and for all matters necessary to give effect to the order and to this section.

  Compare: 1982 No 123 s 47