Registration

8 Proceedings about the register: procedure.

1

Section 12 of the 1979 Act shall be amended as follows.

2

In subsection (2) (committees of the Council to be constituted to hear and determine proceedings about the register) for “hear and determine” there shall be substituted “ deal with ”.

3

In subsection (3) (constitution of committees dealing with proceedings about the register)—

a

for “The committees shall be constituted from members of the Council; and” there shall be substituted “ The committees need not be constituted exclusively from members of the Council, but the rules shall provide, in relation to committees constituted by them, that there shall only be a quorum if a majority of those present are members of the Council. ”; and

b

the remainder of the subsection shall become subsection (3A).