New Zealand Legislation: Regulations

24 Appointment of mediators

• (1) If a dispute arises as to—

  • (a) whether any person is required to pay the levy; or

  • (b) the amount of levy money any person is required to pay,—

  any party to the dispute may ask the President of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants to appoint a person to resolve the dispute by mediation; and in that case the President (or a person authorised by the President to do so) may appoint a person to resolve the dispute by mediation.

  (2) The mediator’s appointment ends if—

  • (a) the parties to the dispute have resolved it by agreement; or

  • (b) the parties to the dispute have not resolved it by agreement, and the mediator has resolved it by coming to 1 or more findings in relation to it.

  Clause 24(1): amended, on 7 July 2010, by section 11 of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 74).