About NZILE

5. OBJECTS

The objects of the Institute are to:

5.1 provide and maintain an organisation for Legal Executives and to advance and protect their interests;

5.2 promote professional unity, co-operation and mutual assistance amongst Legal Executives;

5.3 promote the legal and general education and professional advancement of persons who are or intend to become Legal Executives in order to assist them to become proficient in the law;

5.4 arrange, establish and conduct education schemes, conferences, lectures, seminars and examinations for persons who are or intend to become Legal Executives, whether alone or jointly with the NZLS or any District Law Society or any public, governmental, local or territorial authority, or private body;

5.5 give and award diplomas, certificates, prizes, scholarships, bursaries and other rewards to persons who are or intend to become Legal Executives and who show proficiency in the law;

5.6 establish trust funds, bursaries and scholarships and make payments out of the funds of the Institute in order to promote the educational or professional advancement of persons who are or intend to become Legal Executives;

5.7 in order to further all or any of these objects, to acquire, collect publish or circulate by loan, sale or otherwise books, papers, periodicals and any other literature about or relevant to the laws of New Zealand and law generally and any other matters of professional interest;

5.8 promote or contribute to the acquisition, collection, publication or circulation of any of the books, papers, periodicals and other literature referred to in clause 5.7 of the Rules and

5.9 adopt any such other measures as the Council may, in its discretion, consider conducive to the objects of the Institute.