Legal Complaints and Regulation Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 No. 14

Prospective

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2 N.I. THE BAR COMPLAINTS COMMITTEE

Membership N.I.

4—(1) In appointing members of the Bar Complaints Committee, the Benchers must ensure that— N.I.

(a) a majority of the members of the Committee are lay persons; and

(b) none of the members of the Committee are members of the General Council of the Bar.

(2) The chair of the Bar Complaints Committee must be a lay person.

(3) In this Schedule a reference to a lay person is a reference to a person who is not and has never been a solicitor or barrister.