S.I. No. 307/1956:

SOLICITORS ACT, 1954 (APPRENTICESHIP AND EDUCATION) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1956.

SOLICITORS ACT, 1954 (APPRENTICESHIP AND EDUCATION) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1956.

The Incorporated Law Society of Ireland in exercise of the powers conferred on them by Section 4 , 5 and 40 of the Solicitors Act, 1954 and of every other power thereunto them enabling hereby make the following regulations :--

1. These regulations may be cited as the Solicitors Act 1954 (Apprenticeship and Education) (Amendment) Regulations 1956 and shall be read together with the Solicitors Act 1954 (Apprenticeship and Education) Regulation 1955 ( S.I. No. 217 of 1955 ).

2. These regulations shall come into operation on the 6th day of December, 1956.

3. The Interpretation Act, 1937 , shall apply for the purpose of the interpretation of these regulations as it applies for the purpose of the interpretation of an act of the Oireachtas, except in so far as it may be inconsistent with the Act or these regulations.

4. Regulation 21 of the Solicitors Act 1954 (Apprenticeship and Education) Regulations 1955 ( S.I. No. 217 of 1955 ) is hereby revoked and following regulation is substituted therefor :--

21. (1) Before attending the first law examination an apprentice shall produce to the Society a certificate of having attended a year's course of lectures approved by the Society at Dublin University or one of the constituent colleges of the National University of Ireland in the law of real and personal property, the law of contract and the law of tort and that he has obtained credit for attendance at such lectures and passed the University examinations.

(2) Before attending the second law examination an apprentice shall produce to the Society a certificate of having attended a year's course of lectures approved by the Society in the subject of Equity at Dublin University or one of the constituent colleges of the National University of Ireland and that he has obtained credit for attendance at such lectures and passed the University examinations.

(3) An apprentice who is entitled pursuant to regulation 33 of these regulations to attend the final examination held under the provisions of the regulations of the Council dated 10th June, 1948, as amended shall on entering for the said examination produce to the Society a certificate of having attended and obtained credit for the lectures and examinations mentioned in paragraphs (1) (2) of this regulation.

(4) For the purpose of paragraph 3 of the second Schedule to the Solicitors Act 1954 an apprentice shall produce to the Society certificates of having attended and obtained credit for lectures in any legal subjects at Dublin University or one of the constituent colleges of the National University of Ireland for two separate collegiate years and of having passed the University examinations and such lectures and examinations are hereby prescribed.

(5) Paragraph (4) of this regulation shall not apply so as to exempt any apprentice from the provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2) of this regulation.

Signed on behalf of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland this 6th day of December, 1956.

NIALL S. GAFFNEY,

President of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.