New Zealand Legislation: Acts

169 Power to take possession of money, property, records, and documents

• A Standards Committee may take possession of any money or other property entrusted to a practitioner or former practitioner or any related person or entity and of any records or documents belonging to a practitioner or former practitioner or any related person or entity or held in a practitioner's or former practitioner's or related person's or entity's possession or under a practitioner's or former practitioner's or related person's or entity's control in the course of the practitioner's or former practitioner's or related person's or entity's practice—

  • (a) if satisfied that any of the circumstances specified in section 163 exist in respect of the practitioner or former practitioner; and

  • (b) if, in its opinion, it is expedient to do so.

  Compare: 1982 No 123 s 83(1)