Your CPD Rules & Requirements
Our seminars and conferences aim to keep up-to-date with latest legislation changes, developments and best practice procedures. Upskill yourself in your field and earn continuing professional development (CPD) points.
Our seminars and conferences aim to keep up-to-date with latest legislation changes, developments and best practice procedures. Upskill yourself in your field and earn continuing professional development (CPD) points.
Legalwise Seminars offer a host of opportunities to gain the CPD points you need to comply with any professional development obligations. These include:
All lawyers who provide regulated services (as defined by the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006) are required to complete at least 10 hours of CPD activities during each full CPD year.
The Immigration Adviser Competency Standards 2015 set out the following continuing professional development requirements for licensed immigration advisers:
Mandatory activities:
All New Zealand licensed advisers, including those who are Australian Registered Migration Agents, must attend a minimum of one webinar run by the IAA during each licensing year as a mandatory activity towards annual continuing professional development (CPD).
More information see Immigration Advisers Authority (IAA)
These guidelines are published by the Trans-Tasman IP Attorneys Board (the Board) to assist registered attorneys to understand Continuing Professional Education (CPE) practise and procedure.
Registered attorneys should familiarise themselves with the CPE requirements set out in regulations 20.24 (number of hours), 20.25 (method of demonstrating CPE has been undertaken) and 20.28 (failure to comply with CPE requirements) of the Patents Regulations 1991(Cth). These Australian regulations also apply to New Zealand-resident patent attorneys by virtue of section 271 of the Patents Act 2013 (NZ).
The CPE requirements set out in the Patents Regulations also apply to trade marks attorneys by virtue of regulation 20.14 of the Trade Marks Regulations 1995.
The overarching requirement provided by regulation 20.24 is that single-registered patent attorneys or trademarks attorneys must complete 10 hours of CPE activities every year. A person who is registered as both a patent attorney and a trade marks attorney must complete 15 hours of CPE activities every year.
The Board recommends that registered attorneys undertake a breadth of activities in any year, and there are a number of events/conferences that provide an appropriate breadth of activities. Patent attorneys should be aware that the trans-Tasman patent attorney regime requires patent attorneys to have knowledge and experience of IP law and practice in Australia and New Zealand. Therefore, irrespective of where they reside, patent attorneys should reflect this trans-Tasman requirement in their CPE activities.
For all registered attorneys, the Board believes that:
More information see Trans-Tasman IP Attorneys Board.
Licensed real estate professionals must complete at least 20 hours of CPD each year by 31 December.
This includes:
If you don’t complete the training by 31 December, your licence may be cancelled in January of the following year. If you are reviving your licence, you must have completed the training during the preceding calendar year.
Verifiable Training Providers
Verifiable education is 10-hours of training delivered by approved education providers. It is made up of 5 hours of mandatory topics and 5 hours of elective topics selected from around 40 hours of material.
Non-Verifiable Education
The training providers do not need to be approved by REA, but you do need to keep records to demonstrate you have undertaken at least 10 hours of non-verifiable training each year.
Non-verifiable education can include:
More information see Real Estate Authority (REA)