Queensland Numbered Acts Queensland Numbered Acts(1) The chairperson must make arrangements about constituting the committee for hearing and deciding discipline applications.
(2) For hearing and deciding a discipline application made to the committee, the committee is constituted by--
(a) the chairperson; and
(b) a member of the committee who is a local legal practitioner chosen by the chairperson; and
(c) a lay member of the committee chosen by the chairperson.
(3) In choosing a local legal practitioner as mentioned in subsection (2), the chairperson must choose a person who is--
(a) if the discipline application is about the conduct of a person who, at the time of performing the acts or omitting to do the acts constituting the conduct complained of, was a barrister or, in the opinion of the chairperson, was engaged in legal practice in the manner of a barrister--a barrister; or
(b) otherwise--a solicitor.
(4) The chairperson is to preside at the hearing of a matter referred to the committee.
(5) In this section--
chairperson includes the deputy chairperson.