The Gazette 1967/71

REGISTRY OF DEEDS (FEES) ORDER, 1970 S.I. 238 of 1970 This order increasing fees in the Registry of Deeds, comes into operation on 7 January 1971. The fee upon every memorial registered after that date will be £4, while the fee for a negative search will be £1. The fee for an entry of certi ficate of satisfaction of a judgment mortgage in ordinary cases will be £1. COMMITTEE ON COURT PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE The ninth Interim Report of the Committee on Court Practice and Procedure dealing with Proof of Previous Convictions has made the following recommendations : The Committee unanimously recommended that statutory provisions should be enacted to : (1) enable the prosecution to be at liberty to serve on the defendant in all indictable cases (whether tried summarily or with a jury) in ad vance of his trial a copy of his list of previous convictions (certified to have been compiled from the appropriate criminal records and signed by or on behalf of the Commissioner of the Garda Siochana) together with a notice to the effect that, unless he serves notice of dispute within seven days, the list will be offered in evidence in the event of his conviction and will be admissible as prima facie proof of the convictions as therein set out; (2) enable the prosecution to be at liberty to serve in advance of the hearing on the defendant in proceedings in regard to such summary offences as may from time to time be scheduled by statute or statutory instrument by the Minister for Justice a copy of his list of previous convictions in so far as previous convictions of a similar nature are concerned certified as previously together with a notice to the like effect as that mentioned at (1) above; (3) to require that in the event of conviction of an indictable offence, or a scheduled summary offence, of any person who has had no previous convictions of indictable offences or of scheduled offences of a similar nature, a certificate to that effect (signed by or on behalf of the Commissioner of the Garda Siochana) should bef urnished by the prosecution to the court before sentence or other penalty is imposed; (4) to enable the prosecution to be at liberty to serve on the defendant, in a case where the proof

of a previous conviction is an essential proof for the prosecution, a notice requesting him to make for the purpose of the proceedings in question an admission in writing of the fact and the particu lars of the relevant conviction as set out in the. notice and stating that such admission (if made) will be offered in evidence at his trial; (5) to make this admission in writing admissible in evidence subject to the same conditions as specified in Section 25 of the Criminal Justice Bill, 1967, in regard to proof by formal admission; (6) to require the Court Registrar or clerk of any court dealing with an indictable offence, either at first instance or on appeal, to furnish to the Criminal Registry written notification of the result of the case; (7) to require the Court Registrar or clerk of any court dealing with a summary offence, either at first instance or on appeal, to furnish to the sergeant-in-charge of the Garda Station concerned written notification of the result of the case. SOLICITORS ACT 1954 (FEES) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1970 S.I. No. 245 of 1970 Members will please note that, under these regulations, as from 22 October 1970 the fee pay able by a solicitor on taking out a practising certificate in Dublin city is raised from £11 to £21, and the fee payable by a solicitor on taking out a practising certificate elsewhere in the Republic is raised from £8 to £18. Applications have been received from the registered owners mentioned in the schedule annexed hereto, for the issue of Certificates of Title in substitution for the original certificates issued in respect of the lands speci fied in the said schedule, which original certificates, it is alleged, have been lost or inadvertently destroyed. A new certificate will be issued in each case, except a case in respect of which notification is received in this Registry within twenty-eight days from the publication of this notice, that the Certificate of Title is still in existence, and in the custody of some person other than the registered owner. Any such notification should state the grounds on which such certificate is being held. Dated the 21st day of October 1970. D. M. McALt,ISTER Registrar of Titles. Central Office, Land Registry, Chancery Street, Dublin. 95 THE REGISTRY REGISTRATION OF TITLE ACT, 1964 ISSUE OF NEW LAND CERTIFICATE