# Legal Complaints and Regulation Act (Northern Ireland) 2016, Paragraph 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/14/schedule/3/paragraph/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/legal-complaints-and-regulation-act-northern-ireland-2016/schedule-3/paragraph-4
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