The Gazette 1946-49

Vol. 40 No. 7

January, 1947

THE GAZETTE of the INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND

President : H. ST. J. BLAKE

yice-PresiJents : WILLIAM L. DUGGAN JOHN J. BOLGER

Secretary : ERIC A. PLUN'KETT

FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS

IMPORTANT

Apprentices' Fees THE Secretary

reported the Committee mentioned in Section 57 of the Solicitors (Ireland) Act, 1898, as amended by the Solicitors (Ireland) Act, 1898, Adaptation Order, 1946, had made a regulation increasing the fees payable by apprentices and intending apprentices to the Society, and that the new regulation, which would not affect persons already bound under indentures or who had petitoned to be so bound, would take effect as from 2nd December, 1946. the Controller of Death Duties in which the latter had agreed that in cases where the Commissioner of Valuation raises no question on the value of pro– perty as returned for death duty purposes, the solicitors for the personal representatives will be notified thereof. As forms will have to be printed for this purpose, the Controller stated that some interval will elapse before the new practice could be brought into operation. 45 that Estate Duty Office THE Secretary read correspondence with

MEMBERS that annual certificates should be taken out and duty paid thereon not later than 5th February, 1947. A certificate stamped after February 5th must be produced to the Society within one month after date of stamping. If not so produced within the said period the certificate will take effect as a qualification to practise only from the date when it is produced. MEETINGS OF COUNCIL NOVEMBER z6th. The President in the chair. Also present: Messrs. Roger Greene, H. P. Mayne, P. R. Boyd, A. S. Merrick, Hugh O'Donnell, T. A. O'Reilly, Scan 6 hUadhaigh, W. J. Norman, J. Travers Wolfe, D. P. Shaw, Joseph P. Tyrrell, J. J. Smith, H. St. J. Blake, P. F. O'Reilly, J. B. Hamill, J. J. Lynch, G. A. Overend, J. Barrett, J. Gillespie, J. J. Bolger, J. P. Carrigan, Arthur Cox, J. R. Quirke. The following was among the business transacted : are reminded