This Act may be cited as the Law Practitioners Amendment Act 1970, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Law Practitioners Act 1955 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Section 116 of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding to subsection (1) the following paragraph:

Section 117 of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing paragraph (b) of subsection (1) (as substituted by section 8 of the Law Practitioners Amendment Act 1962), and substituting the following paragraph:

Section 117 of the principal Act is hereby further amended by adding to subsection (1) the following paragraph:

Section 121 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from paragraph (b) the words “and Vice-Presidents”, and substituting the words “Vice-Presidents, and President-elect”.

Section 8 of the Law Practitioners Amendment Act 1962 is hereby consequentially repealed.

The person holding office at the commencement of this Act as the Vice-President of the New Zealand Law Society elected by the Council from the members of the Society practising in the North Island who are not members of the Wellington District Law Society shall, without further election, be deemed to have been elected a Vice-President of the Society under subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 117 of the principal Act (as amended by subsection (2) of this section); and such person shall, unless he dies or resigns his office or becomes disqualified, hold office until his successor is elected and shall be eligible for re-election.

Section 10 of the Law Practitioners Amendment Act 1961 is hereby amended by inserting, after paragraph (c) of subsection (1), the following paragraph: