The Gazette 1955-58

Vol. 49 No. 6

December, 1955

THE GAZETTE of the INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND

President DERMOT P. SHAW

Vict-Presidenls RALPH J. WALKER GEORGE G. OVEREND

Secritary ERIC A. PLUNKETT

FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS

THE

PRESIDENT

AND

VICE-

IMPORTANT PRACTISING Certificates, 1956-57. -(i) Members are reminded that practising certificates for the year to end 5th January, 1957, should be taken out on or after 6th January, 1956, and not kter than Saturday, 4th February, 1956, in order to take effect as a qualification to practise from 6th January. (2) Under the provision of the Solicitors' Act, 1954, the declaration to be lodged .with the Society on applying for a practising certificate shall be completed and signed by the applicant personally unless the Registrar on the ground of illness or some other sufficient ground dispenses with personal signature of the declaration. Dublin agents of country solicitors should therefore take up the certificates in good time and forward them for signature to their correspondents. (3) A form of directions in regard to applications for practising certificates for the year 1956-57 will be issued to each solicitor applying personally or by his Dublin agent for a form of declaration.

PRESIDENTS. MR. Dermot P. Shaw of Mullingar has been elected President of the Society for the coming year, and Mr. Ralph J. Walker of Dublin and Mr. George G. Overend of Dublin have been elected Vice- Presidents. SOLICITORS' ACT, 1954 (Appren ticeship and Education) REGULA TIONS, 1955 Copies of the Solicitors'Act, 1954 (Apprenticeship and Education) Regulations, 1955 (S.I. No. 217 of 1955) which regulate the revised course of legal education to be undertaken by solicitors apprentices, will be on sale in due course at the Government Publications Sale Office, The Arcade, Henry Street, Dublin. 49