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Solicitors Act 1974

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79Committees of the Council

(1)The Council may appoint a committee for any such general or special purpose as in the opinion of the Council may be better regulated, or managed by means of a committee, and may delegate to any committee so appointed, with or without restrictions or conditions, as they think fit, the exercise of any functions exercisable by the Council.

(2)The number and term of office of the members of a committee appointed under this section, and the number of those members necessary to form a quorum, shall be fixed by the Council.

(3)A committee appointed under this section may include persons who are not members of the Council; but at least half the members of any such committee (including the chairman) shall be members of the Council.

(4)If more than one-third of the members of any committee appointed under this section are not members of the Council, no resolution of that committee shall be duly passed unless the majority of the members of the Council present vote in favour of it.

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