New Zealand Legislation: Regulations

24 Appointment of mediators

• (1) If a dispute arises as to—

  • (a) whether any person is required to pay the levy; or

  • (b) the amount of levy money any person is required to pay,—

  any party to the dispute may ask the President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of New Zealand to appoint a person to resolve the dispute by mediation; and in that case the President (or a person authorised by the President to do so) may appoint a person to resolve the dispute by mediation.

  (2) The mediator’s appointment ends if—

  • (a) the parties to the dispute have resolved it by agreement; or

  • (b) the parties to the dispute have not resolved it by agreement, and the mediator has resolved it by coming to 1 or more findings in relation to it.