Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 July 2013

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage

9:40 am

Photo of Alan ShatterAlan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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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.".