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1. IACDT - Annual -report 2014 [pdf, 414 KB]

   ...in 2010. The Tribunal considers and determines complaints made against licensed immigration advisers referred to it by the Registrar of the Immigration Advisers Authority (IAA). This includes whether or not to suspend an immigration adviser’s licence pending the outcome of a matter. Any person, including the Registrar on her own motion, can initiate complaints. The Tribunal also deals with appeals against the Registrar’s decision:  to cancel an immigration adviser’s licenc...

2. Singh v Patel [2019] NZIACDT 29 (9 May 2019) [pdf, 98 KB]

   ...51 Disciplinary sanctions (1) The sanctions that the Tribunal may impose are— (a) caution or censure: (b) a requirement to undertake specified training or otherwise remedy any deficiency within a specified period: (c) suspension of licence for the unexpired period of the licence, or until the person meets specified conditions: (d) cancellation of licence: (e) an order preventing the person from reapplying for a licence for a period not exceeding 2 years, or until the...

3. [2016] NZEmpC 158 Kidd v Beaumont [pdf, 460 KB]

   ...…………………………………………………………... [130] Introduction [1] At the heart of this case is the question whether a long-term resident of a holiday park or campground, who worked there part-time on a roster and in return for which he received money and a free licence to occupy a site and use the camp’s facilities, was an employee of the business’s owner. Flowing from this decision may or may not be an entitlement to minimum employment conditions...

4. Education and Training Amendment Bill [pdf, 198 KB]

   ...in schools, but must first be approved to use physical restraint by the school that employs them; f. clarify early childhood regulation-making powers to ensure that regulations can be made in relation to applications for approval to apply for a licence and applications for a new licence in order to reflect the new licencing framework introduced by the principal Act; g. specify the agencies to which any Ministerial statement of expectations could apply. Consistency of the Bill w...

5. P Singh v Kumar [2011] NZIACDT 24 (18 August 2011) [pdf, 162 KB]

   ...the Act. The Code was developed pursuant to section 37 of the Act (published www.iaa.govt.nz). [3] Section 44(2) of the Act provides a breach of the Code is grounds to uphold a complaint, as is negligence and incompetence. [4] The Adviser is a licenced immigration adviser, who was engaged by the Complainant to vary a work permit in July 2009. [5] Immigration New Zealand responded to the application for variation, saying the variation was not possible. That was because the Complainant...

6. Koppula v Zhou [2014] NZIACDT 116 (27 November 2014) [pdf, 236 KB]

   ...opportunity to provide immigration advice to her client, or otherwise act against their interests. In the present case, that would have required an explanation to them that Mr Martin could not lawfully give immigration advice, as he did not hold a licence; and explain the extent of any known offending in relation to their applications up to that point. [11.3] Ms Zhou may have failed to discharge her professional duties, and furthered the unlawful conduct of Mr Martin, in particular: [1...

7. ASC - 2015 annual report [pdf, 828 KB]

   ...to see PHARMAC consider additional or alternative devices for funding at their next contract review. PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH The Abortion Supervisory Committee is a governance body that has a responsibility to ensure those we licence are undergoing appropriate ongoing professional education. During a certifying consultant’s annual reappointment process, we request information about the ongoing professional education they have completed. We continue to be im...

8. Lee v Couch - Rāpaki Marae 875 Sec 19 and others (2012) 12 Te Waipounamu MB 139 (12 TWP 139) [pdf, 209 KB]

   ...within Rāpaki Marae and the Ngāti Wheke community. The particular points of contention concern the activities, rights, duties and obligations between the two entities and the necessity for formalising their relationship through, for example, a licence to occupy. 12 Te Waipounamu MB 140 [2] Equally importantly, a dispute has arisen over the trusteeships for the Māori reservation. Kopa Lee, Te Whe Phillips and Tutehounuku Korako take the view that traditionally there have be...

9. U v I [2018] NZIACDT 21 (18 June 2018) [pdf, 250 KB]

   ...some other professions manage cases like this one. [3] I will take Mr I’s situation into account when deciding the complaint. He is not able to understand the complaint due to his health; family members have been cooperative, but they are not licenced immigration advisers. I am dealing with the complaint without any response from Mr I, but this is not due to any fault on his part. [4] The Registrar, as the Tribunal’s rules require, issued a notice of complaint. It sets out t...

10. CAC 10031 v Lum-On - Penalty Decision [2012] NZREADT 47 [pdf, 30 KB]

    ...in the performance of real estate agency work. 10 [8] Penalties must also be proportional to the offence and reflect other decisions of the Tribunal. The CAC referred to the decision of the Tribunal in Khan [2011] NZREADT 11 where Mrs Khan’s licence was cancelled when she was found to have acted dishonestly on a transaction. The CAC also referred to the decision of Dodd [2011] NZREADT 1, in which a dishonest agent was suspended. Lang J held that disciplinary proceedings inevitab...