New Zealand Legislation: Acts

74 Levies

• (1) The Council of the New Zealand Law Society—

  • (a) may, by resolution, for the sole purpose of funding the regulatory functions and powers of the Society, impose on lawyers a levy or levies not exceeding in the aggregate in any year, in respect of any lawyer, an amount equal to one-quarter of the maximum practising fee payable by any lawyer for that year; and

  • (b) in addition, may, by resolution, for the purpose of section 221(1), impose on all lawyers a levy or levies to recover from those lawyers the amount of any levy paid by the Society under section 217 or section 219.

  (2) Any resolution under subsection (1) may provide—

  • (a) for payment of the levy—

    • (i) by all lawyers; or

    • (ii) by any specified class or classes of lawyers; or

    • (iii) by lawyers practising in any specified part or parts of New Zealand:

  • (b) for the payment of different amounts—

    • (i) by different classes of lawyers; or

    • (ii) by lawyers practising in different parts of New Zealand.

  (3) The proceeds of any levy imposed under subsection (1) must not be used by the Society in the exercise of its representative functions and powers or to meet any debt or liability incurred by the Society in respect of its representative functions and powers.

  (4) The amount of any levy imposed under subsection (1) is payable in such manner as the practice rules prescribe or authorise, and is recoverable on behalf of the New Zealand Law Society as a debt due to it.

  Compare: 1982 No 123 s 9