Legal Complaints and Regulation Act (Northern Ireland) 2016

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4.—(1) In appointing members of the Solicitors Complaints Committee, the Law Society must ensure that—

(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 Council of the Law Society.

(2) The chair of the Solicitors 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 barrister or solicitor.