The Gazette 1955-58

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 (i) and (2) of this regulation. COUNTY KERRY LAW SOCIETY. AT the Annual General Meeting of the Society, the following officers and Committee were elected for the year 1957: President, Gerald Baily; Vice- President, Thomas O'Neill; Chairman, C. J. Downing; Secretary and Treasurer, J. J. Grace; Committee : J. C. Guihan, M. L. O'Connell, D. E. Browne, J. S. O'Reilly, D. F. O'Shea, H. J. Downing and W. A. Crowley. MAYO SOLICITORS BAR ASSOCIATION. THE following are the President and Officers for the year 1956-57. President, Patrick J. Mulligan; Vice-President, Edmund A. Corr ; Hon. Treasurer, Bridget M. Hynes; Hon. Secretary, William Dillon-Leetch ; Council: Patrick J. Brennan, Laurence Gill, Thomas D. Kelly, Michael Moran and Patrick U. Murphy. COUNTY ROSCOMMON BAR ASSOCIATION. AT the Annual Meeting of the Association the following officers and Committee were elected: President, P. J. Neilan ; Chairman, J. Kelly; Vice- Chairman, F. X. Burke ; Secretary, Oliver Macklin; Treasurer, J. J. Sheerin ; Committee : D. Carlos, T. O'Keeffe, T. Callan and M. D. O'Connor. COUNTY AND CITY OF LIMERICK SESSIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION. MR. BRIAN GEARY of Bedford Row, Limerick, has been appointed Hon. Secretary. COUNTY KILDARE BAR ASSOCIATION. MR. JOHN J. DUNNE of Kildare has been elected President for the year and Mr. Brian Price of Naas has been elected Hon. Secretary. DUBLIN SOLICITORS BAR ASSOCIATION. A MEETING of the Council of the Association was held on Wednesday, the 9th of January, 1957. All members who have not yet done so are urged to join the Solicitors Benevolent Association. A draft scale of costs for proceedings under the

and the final approval of the Council and will then be submitted to the Commissioners of Charitable Donations and Bequests. SOLICITORS ACCOUNTS REGULATIONS, 1956. BY the Solicitors Accounts Regulations, 1956, made by the Council with the concurrence of the Chief Justice it was provided that the Solicitors' Accounts Regulations, 1955 (S.I. No. 218 of 1955) shall come into operation on the ist day of January, 1958, or on such later date as may be appointed by the Council with the concurrence of the Chief Justice. APPRENTICESHIP AND EDUCATION. THE Council have made regulations which came into operation on December 6th, whereby Regu lation 21 of the Solicitors Act, 1954 (Apprenticeship and Education) Regulations, 1955 (S.I. No. 217 of 1955) was revoked and following regulation substituted therefor :— 21.—(i) 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 examina tion 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 con stituent 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 loth 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 (i) and (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 Findlater Scholarships await