What the official record says
This Act is the Lawyers and Conveyancers Amendment Act . comes into force on . The rest of this Act comes into force on the day after the date on which it receives the Royal assent. This Act amends the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006. The purpose of this Part is to amend the principal Act to— end the renaming as Senior Counsel of the office or rank that before 1 August 2008 was, and after is again to be, known in New Zealand as Queen's Counsel; and restrict standard eligibility for appointment, under the Royal prerogative, to that office or rank to a specified category of lawyers practising independently as barristers sole; and require people who hold that rank, and who when appointed to it were lawyers in that specified category, to practise in ways that maintain its independence. The h