The Gazette 1944-46

Vol. 38 No. 3

July 1944

THE GAZETTE of the INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND

f'resident .'

ROBERT A. MACAULAY ARTHUR COX

Secretary:

LOUIS

E.

O'DEA

ERIC

A.

PLUNKETT

FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS

MEETING OF THE COUNCIL. 30TH JUNE, 1944. The President in the chair. Present: Messrs. R. A. Macaulay, A. Cox, Vice- Presidents ; J. J. Smyth, J. Travers Wolfe, P. R. Boyd, C. G. Stapleton, W. S. Hayes, J. R. Quirice, F. J. W. Barley, W. J. Norman, H. P. Mayne, G. A. Overend, D. O'Connell, A. S. Merrick, P. O'Connor, John J. Dunne, J. P. Carrigan, H. St. J. Blake, P. F. O'Reilly, M. E. Knight, J. B. Hamill, Roger Greene. The following were among the matters dealt with :— Land Registry Practice. THE meeting considered the report of a Committee on the memorandum recently issued from the Land Registry dealing with matters requiring particular attention by solicitors. This memo randum stated that it is desirable that documents should, so far as possible, be lodged in the Central

Office by town agents of solicitors instead of being lodged with the Local Registrars or sent to the Central Office by post. The Committee in its report stated that this suggestion is not a require ment of the rules and that solicitors are still en titled to lodge documents in the first instance in the Local Registries. As it appears that compliance with the suggestion would cause inconvenience both to country solicitors and to their Dublin agents the Committee recommended that a depu tation from the Council should interview the Registrar of Titles with reference to the matter. The report of the Committee was adopted. On a report from the same Committee the Secretary was directed to interview the Registrar regarding the new requirement that a certificate of the P.L.V. of lands must be lodged with dealings for registration. Land Registration Fee Order 1944. THE Council considered a report from the same Committee on the above Order and the resdlu-

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