Updated List of Expiring Appointments
Body/Position
Positions expiring in
Update
2025/26
ACT 1982
Alcohol Regulatory & Licensing
3 members
1 reapptmt completed
Authority
2 pending
Community Magistrates
2 Community Magistrates
2 pending
3 new apptmts
completed
Coroners
8 relief coroners
pending
Criminal Case Review Commission
3 members
2 reapptmts
completed
1 pending
Customs Appeal Authority
1 Authority
pending
Disputes Tribunal – Auckland
7 Referees
2 reapptmts
completed
4 apptmts pending
Disputes Tribunal – Christchurch
6 Referees
1 reapptmt completed
5 pending
INFORMATION
Disputes Tribunal – Dunedin
1 Referee
pending
Disputes Tribunal – Gisborne
1 Referee
pending
Disputes Tribunal – Hamilton
1 Referee
Pending
Disputes Tribunal – Hastings
1 Referee
Pending
Disputes Tribunal – Nelson
1 Referee
Pending
Disputes Tribunal – New Plymouth
1 Referee
Pending
Disputes Tribunal – Palmerston
1 Referee
Pending
North
Disputes Tribunal – Rotorua
2 Referees
2 reapptmts
completed
Disputes Tribunal – Tauranga
3 Referees
2 reapptmts
completed
Disputes Tribunal – Wellington
3 Referees
Pending
Disputes Tribunal – Whangarei
1 Referee
1 reapptmt completed
1 apptmt pending
Environment Court
6 Commissioner
6 reapptmts
completed
6 new apptmts
completed
Immigration Advisers Complaints &
Chairperson
Pending
Disciplinary Tribunal
Inspector-General of Intelligence
IGIS
1 reapptmt completed
and Security (IGIS)
Judicial Conduct Commissioner
Commissioner
Pending
Land Valuation Tribunal –
Deputy Chair & 2 members
All LVT matters
Auckland
pending
Land Valuation Tribunal – Gisborne
2 members
RELEASED UNDER THE OFFICIAL
Land Valuation Tribunal – Hawke’s
1 member
Bay
Land Valuation Tribunal – Nelson
2 members
Land Valuation Tribunal – North
1 member
Auckland
Land Valuation Tribunal – North
1 member
ACT 1982
Canterbury
Land Valuation Tribunal – Otago
2 members
Land Valuation Tribunal – South
2 members
Canterbury
Land Valuation Tribunal – Taranaki
1 member
Land Valuation Tribunal – Waikato
2 members
No 1
Land Valuation Tribunal – Waikato
1 member
No 4
Land Valuation Tribunal –
2 members
Wellington No 1
Land Valuation Tribunal –
1 member
Wellington No 2
Land Valuation Tribunal –
1 member
Whanganui
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Law Commission
President and
1 Commissioner and
Commissioner
interim President
completed
1 President apptmt
pending
Legal Aid Tribunal
Chairperson
Pending
Legal Complaints Review Officer
2 LCRO’s & 3 Deputy
1 LCRO apptmt
(LCRO)
LCROs
completed
(noted an error here – there
Deputy matters
is only 1 LCRO apptmt
Pending
NZ Lawyers & Conveyancers
Deputy Chair & 3 lay
1 Chair and Dep
Disciplinary Tribunal
members
Chair reapptmts
completed.
Lay members
Pending
NZ Parole Board
18 panel convenors & 10
4 convenor apptmts
members
completed
2 member apptmts
completed
Others pending
Principal Disputes Referee (PDR)
PDR
pending
Private Security Personnel
Authority
2 Dep Authority
Licensing Authority
Appts completed
Real Estate Agents Authority
3 members
1 Chair reapptmt
completed
4 member apptmts
completed
Real Estate Agents Disciplinary
Chair & 3 members
Pending
Tribunal
Review Authority
Authority
Pending
Taxation Review Authority
Authority
Pending
RELEASED UNDER THE OFFICIAL
Tenancy Tribunal – Auckland
9 Adjudicators
3 apptmts completed
6 pending
Tenancy Tribunal – Invercargill
1 Adjudicator
Tenancy Tribunal –
1 Adjudicator
1 apptmt completed
Napier/Hastings
ACT 1982
Tenancy Tribunal – Rotorua
1 Adjudicator
1 apptmt completed
Tenancy Tribunal – Tauranga
2 Adjudicators
1 apptmt completed
1 pending
Tenancy Tribunal – Wellington
1 Adjudicators
Pending
Tenancy Tribunal – Whangarei
1 Adjudicators
Pending
Trans-Tasman Occupations
Chairperson
Pending
Tribunal
Visiting Justices
20 Visiting Justices
Pending
Weathertight Homes Tribunal
Chairperson
1 apptmt completed
INFORMATION
RELEASED UNDER THE OFFICIAL