New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION UNIFORM LAW APPLICATION ACT 2014 - SECT 33

33 Lay representation on committees

(1) The Attorney General may do either or both of the following--

(a) after consultation with the Bar Council, direct, by written order, that any specified committees or kinds of committees of the Bar Association or Bar Council must include in their membership a specified or determinable number of lay members,

(b) after consultation with the Law Society Council, direct, by written order, that any specified committees or kinds of committees of the Law Society or Law Society Council must include in their membership a specified or determinable number of lay members.

(2) Except as provided by subsection (3), a direction has no effect to the extent that it would require the membership of a committee to have more than one-quarter of its membership composed of lay members.

(3) The membership of any professional conduct committee must include at least 3 lay members.

(4) A lay member has the voting and other rights and the obligations that are provided in the constitution of the committee or as are provided by the local regulations. Those regulations prevail to the extent of any inconsistency with the constitution of the committee.

(5) For the purposes of this section, a lay member is a person who is not an Australian lawyer.