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Conveyancing Practitioner

CONVEYANCING PRACTITIONER

A Registered Conveyancer can make an application to the NZ Society of Conveyancers to become a Conveyancing Practitioner where if successful, they will be issued with a Practising Certificate. Conveyancing Practitioners can apply to the NZSOC to operate on their own account (see below).

Criteria for Eligibility for a Practising Certificate:

  1. The applicant must be a Registered Conveyancer through NZ Society of Conveyancers.
  2. Be a fit and proper person (as defined by s83 of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act).
  3. Payment of the applicable fee.
  4. The applicant does not hold and has not applied to hold a practising certificate as a lawyer.
  5. The applicant is aware of the fundamental obligations of Conveyancing practitioners in accordance with section 5 of the Act.
  6. The practice (if any) to which the person is a member or employee must hold professional indemnity insurance
  7. If the Conveyancing Practitioner is an employee of a law firm or law practitioner, then an indemnity declaration by the employer is to be provided to the NZSoC.

In accordance with s9 Lawyers and Conveyancers Act, a practitioner is guilty of misconduct, who, being an employee, provides conveyancing services to the public other than in the course of his or her employment –

  • by a conveyancing practitioner; or
  • by a partnership comprised entirely of conveyancing practitioners; or
  • by an incorporated conveyancing firm; or
  • by a lawyer; or
  • by a partnership comprised entirely of lawyers; or
  • by an incorporated law firm; or
  • by Public Trust; or
  • by the Maori Trustee; or
  • by a trustee company

Registration & Certification Rules

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