New Zealand Legislation: Acts

227 Functions of Disciplinary Tribunal

• The functions of the Disciplinary Tribunal are—

  • (a) to hear and determine any application made by a Standards Committee or the Legal Complaints Review Officer for the suspension of a practitioner pending the determination of a charge that the Standards Committee or the Legal Complaints Review Officer has laid against that practitioner:

  • (b) to hear and determine any charge against a practitioner or former practitioner or an incorporated firm or former incorporated firm or an employee or former employee of a practitioner or an incorporated firm that is made to it by a Standards Committee or the Legal Complaints Review Officer:

  • (c) to hear and determine any application made by a person under section 246 for the restoration of his or her name to the roll or to the register of conveyancers:

  • (d) to hear and determine any application made by a person under section 247 for the revocation of an order made under section 242(1)(h):

  • (e) to hear and determine any appeal under section 42:

  • (f) to hear and determine any application made by a practitioner or an incorporated firm under section 248 for the consent of the Disciplinary Tribunal to the employment by the practitioner or incorporated firm of a person who—

    • (i) is under suspension from practice as a barrister or as a barrister and solicitor or as a conveyancing practitioner; or

    • (ii) has had his or her name struck off the roll otherwise than at his or her own request; or

    • (iii) has had his or her registration as a conveyancing practitioner cancelled by an order made under this Act; or

    • (iv) is disqualified, by an order made under section 242(1)(h), from employment in connection with a practitioner's or incorporated firm's practice:

  • (g) to make rules, not inconsistent with this Act, in respect of the making, hearing, and determination of applications, inquiries, appeals, and other proceedings before the Disciplinary Tribunal:

  • (h) to perform such other functions as are conferred on it by this Act or any other enactment.

  Compare: 1982 No 123 ss 110, 130