Legal Services Amendment Act 1997

Public Act		1997 No 48
Date of assent		28 July 1997

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Membership
3	Appointment of deputies
4	Consequential amendments to Department of Justice (Restructuring) Act 1995
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Legal Services Act 1991

BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of New Zealand as follows:

1 Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Legal Services Amendment Act 1997, and is part of the Legal Services Act 1991 (“the principal Act”).

2 Membership

Section 98(1) of the principal Act is amended by repealing paragraph (b) (as substituted by section 10(1) of the Department of Justice (Restructuring) Act 1995), and substituting the following paragraph:

“(b)

The Secretary for Justice:”.

3 Appointment of deputies

Section 99 of the principal Act is amended by repealing subsection (3) (as substituted by section 10(1) of the Department of Justice (Restructuring) Act 1995), and substituting the following subsection:

“(3)

The Secretary for Justice may appoint any employee of the Ministry of Justice to be that person’s deputy for the purposes of attending any meeting of the Board.”

4 Consequential amendments to Department of Justice (Restructuring) Act 1995

The First Schedule of the Department of Justice (Restructuring) Act 1995 is amended by repealing the items relating to sections 98(1) and 99 of the principal Act.

This Act is administered in the Ministry of Justice.

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