New Zealand Legislation: Acts

54 Rules of court as to admission

• (1) Rules, not inconsistent with this Act, may from time to time be made, in the manner prescribed by the Judicature Act 1908, in respect of the evidence of the qualifications, character, and fitness of candidates, and generally in respect of any matter relating to the admission of candidates as barristers and solicitors of the High Court.

  (2) Rules made under this section may prescribe non-educational criteria to be met by candidates for admission as barristers or as barristers and solicitors, which criteria may preclude the admission of a person who has, at any time, been convicted of an offence of a kind or class specified in rules made under this section or who has, at any time, been declared bankrupt.

  (3) Nothing in subsection (2) limits the generality of subsection (1).

  Compare: 1982 No 123 s 48