17Legal proceedings and evidence

#### 17 Legal proceedings and evidence (1) Subject to subsection (2), where, immediately before the succession day for a receiving bank and the relevant transferring bank, proceedings (including arbitration proceedings) to which the transferring bank was a party were pending or existing in any court or tribunal, the receiving bank is, on that day, substituted for the transferring bank as a party to the proceedings and has the same rights in the proceedings as the transferring bank had. (2) Subsection (1) only applies to proceedings to which BNZ Savings was a party if those proceedings relate to the business of that bank that relates to its Australian operations. (3) Where, before the succession day for a receiving bank and the relevant transferring bank, documentary or other evidence would have been admissible for or against the interests of the transferring bank, that evidence is admissible, on or at any time after that day, for or against the interests of the receiving bank.