New Zealand Legislation: Acts

131 Rules relating to Standards Committees

• The rules governing the operation of a Standards Committee must include, but are not limited to,—

  • (a) rules providing details of the procedures to be followed in relation to complaints:

  • (b) rules specifying the manner in which a Standards Committees is to exercise its functions and powers:

  • (c) rules providing for—

    • (i) the publication of information relating to the existence of the complaints service; and

    • (ii) the means by which a person may gain access to the complaints service; and

    • (iii) the means by which a complaint may be made:

  • (d) rules providing for the publication of information regarding the outcomes and the performance of the complaints service:

  • (e) rules specifying the criteria that will apply in relation to a complaint about a bill of costs, which criteria may provide that a complaint is not to be dealt with unless the bill of costs to which the complaint relates is for a sum that exceeds an amount specified in the rules:

  • (f) rules specifying the circumstances in which the New Zealand Law Society or the New Zealand Society of Conveyancers or a Standards Committee may publish the identity of a person who has been censured by a Standards Committee.