Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 4:

In page 11, between lines 40 and 41, to insert the following subsection:"(3) For the purposes of this Act, a person is a lay person on a particular date if, on that date, he or she—

(a) is not a practising solicitor or a practising barrister, and
(b) where he or she has previously been a practising solicitor or a practising barrister, he or she—

(i) has not been such in the period of 5 years immediately preceding that date, and
(ii) did not cease to be such as a result of a sanction imposed on him or her by a body that was authorised to require him or her to cease such practice.".