8 Proceedings about the register: procedure.U.K.
(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).