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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-complaints-and-regulation-act-northern-ireland-2016/schedule-3/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "nia/2016/14",
  "legislation_title": "Legal Complaints and Regulation Act (Northern Ireland) 2016",
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  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In appointing members of the Solicitors Complaints Committee, the Law Society must ensure that—\n(a) a majority of the members of the Committee are lay persons; and\n(b) none of the members of the Committee are members of the Council of the Law Society.\n(2) The chair of the Solicitors Complaints Committee must be a lay person.\n(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.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 4 in operation at 1.9.2025 by S.R. 2025/143, art. 2(1)"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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