7.—Section 14 of the Law Reform Commission Act 1975, is amended—

(a) in subsection (2)—

(i) by the substitution of “Subject to subsection (2A) of this section, when a person who is a barrister or a solicitor is appointed” for “When a person who is a barrister is appointed”, and

(ii) by the substitution of “shall be deemed to be practice as a barrister or a solicitor, as may be appropriate” for “shall be deemed to be practice at the Bar”,

and

(b) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (2):

“(2A) Service as a Commissioner in a whole-time capacity or a whole-time officer of the Commission shall not be deemed to be practice as a barrister or a solicitor to satisfy the requirement in subsection (2)(a) of section 5 (as amended by section 4 of the Courts and Court Officers Act 2002) of the Act of 1961 of a continuous period of not less than 2 years practice by a person as a barrister or a solicitor immediately before the appointment of the person as a judge of the Supreme Court or the High Court.”.