New Zealand Legislation: Acts

166 Claims in respect of money paid to Standards Committee

• (1) Where, under section 164(2), any money is paid to a Standards Committee or the New Zealand Law Society or the New Zealand Society of Conveyancers,—

  • (a) any person claiming to be adversely affected by the payment; and

  • (b) if the money was paid from the regulated account of a deceased practitioner, the executor or administrator of the deceased practitioner or any person claiming to be entitled to a grant of probate or letters of administration of the estate of the deceased practitioner,—

  may at any time apply to the court for an order directing the Standards Committee or the New Zealand Law Society or the New Zealand Society of Conveyancers to repay the money into the bank account from which it was paid or for such order as the court thinks fit.

  (2) The court, on hearing an application under subsection (1), may make such order as it thinks fit.

  Compare: 1982 No 123 s 82(5)