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(Jj) conveyancing law and practice and land law, (V) the procedure and practice of the Courts, (d) tax law, (e) book-keeping, (f) the law of wills and probate and executorship law and practice, (g) the rights, duties and responsibilities of solicitors. (2) The council may appoint and remunerate lecturers. Each lecturer shall be appointed for a year certain and shall be eligible for reappointment but his term of office shall not exceed five years in all unless the council by resolution on notice shall otherwise direct. (3) The Court of Examiners shall submit recom mendations to the council as to the programme of lectures and the council may adopt the same with such alterations as they may think fit, and may from time to time alter or amend the programme after referring the matter to the Court of Examiners and • considering their report thereon. (4) The programme of lectures shall prescribe the conditions which must be fulfilled by an appren tice in order to obtain credit for lectures, the number of lectures on each subject, the place, dates and duration of lectures and such other matters as the council shall think fit. (5) Each apprentice seeking admission shall produce to the Society evidence that he has attended and obtained credit for the lectures prescribed by this regulation in accordance with the provisions and conditions of the published programme. A certificate of credit for such lectures may be withheld by the lecturer if he is not satisfied with the attendance of an apprentice or with his conduct. A certificate of credit for attendance at lectures shall be in form AE. 8 in the schedule hereto. 4. The following form of certificate of credit for lectures shall be substituted for form AE. 8 in the schedule of forms to the Solicitors Act, 1954 (Apprenticeship and Education) Regulations, 1955 (S.I. No. 217 of 1955)-

make a purported letting to the tenant which is a nullit) and he asked for the guidance of the Council whether he should (a) advise his client to apply for and obtain the Land Commission consent or (b) postpone completion until the client can be advised of the legal position. On a report from a committee the Council stated that there must be either (a) separate legal advice for the lessee or (£) full disclosure as to the legal position by the lessor's solicitor. Press notices by solicitors The Council in special circumstances approved of the publication by a surviving partner of a press notice stating that he had acquired the full interest in the solicitor's practice formerly carried on by another solicitor and 'himself in partnership. The special circumstances were that the deceased partner resided in Dublin and practised in the Dublin office while the surviving partner carried on practice in the country office of the partnership. S.I. No. 94 of 1960 SOLICITORS ACT 1954 (APPRENTICE- SHIP AND EDUCATION) (AMEND- MENT) REGULATIONS 1960 The Incorporated Law Society of Ireland in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 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) (Amend ment) Regulations, 1960 and shall come into operation on the 28th day of April, 1960. 2. These regulations shall be read together with the Solicitors Act, 1954 (Apprenticeship and Education) Regulations, 1955 (S.I. No. 217 of 1955) and the Solicitors Act, 1954 (Apprenticeship and Education) (Amendment) Regulations, 1956 (S.I. No. 307 of 1956) and shall in so far as they are inconsistent therewith alter and amend the same. 3. Regulation 22 of the Solicitors Act, 1954 (Apprenticeship and Education) Regulations, 1955 (S.I. No. 217 of 1955) is revoked and the following regulation is substituted therefor :— 22. Society's lectures. (i) The Society shall provide or arrange for the provision of a course of lectures on each of the following subjects : (a) company law,

FORM AE. 8.

CERTIFICATE OF CREDIT FOR LECTURES. I hereby certify that of . has attended a course of lectures in delivered by me during the session 19

, and that