New Zealand Legislation: Acts

98 Certain practice rules in relation to conveyancing practitioners

• (1) Practice rules made by the New Zealand Society of Conveyancers—

  • (a) must provide educational criteria to be met by candidates for practising certificates as conveyancing practitioners:

  • (b) must provide for, or include mechanisms providing for, the recognition of foreign qualifications, registration, and experience:

  • (c) may require conveyancing practitioners, or any class of conveyancing practitioners, to undertake ongoing education relating to the law or the practice of conveyancing.

  (2) Practice rules made pursuant to subsection (1)(c) may, without limitation,—

  • (a) provide for the times or frequencies at which the education must be undertaken and the topics to be addressed:

  • (b) require that particular education be undertaken, or (in addition or as an alternative) require that the education comply with specified requirements:

  • (c) exempt, or provide for the exemption of, any conveyancing practitioner or class of conveyancing practitioner from all or any rules made under section 94 pursuant to subsection (1)(c) of this section.

  Compare: 1982 No 123 s 17(2)(fa)