The Gazette 1967/71

ACCOUNTANT'S CERTIFICATES In the course of a normal year the Society will receive approximately 1,300 Accountant's Cer tificates from members. In the absence of notifi cation to the contrary, a member who sends in an Accountant's Certificate to the Society may as sume that it is in order. If the certificate is not received, or if any question arises on it the mem ber will be notified. The Council hope that this procedure will be understood by members, as the necessity of issuing a separate acknowledgement for each Accountant's Certificate received would throw a considerable additional burden of work on the Society's staff. CORRESPONDENCE Dear Sir, We act for the Purchasers in a sale which is now nearing completion. Due to complex title difficulties arising this sale has long ago overun its Contract closing date and it is not yet possible to tell with precision when exactly the Sale will be closed but it should be closed within say the next month, or six weeks. Counsel his directed a negative Search in the Registry of Deeds on behalf of the Purchasers. Recently we wrote Messrs. Tighe & Son asking them to initiate this negative Search on our behalf and they have now replied as follows: "Before we do anything in this matter (initiating the negative Search), we think it only fair to tell you that negative Searches are taking over two months before same are ready to be inspected in the Registry of Deeds Office. Negative Searches we lodged as far back as last August are not yet ready for inspection. Under these circumstances, would you settle for a verified Hand Search instead". Obviously under these circumstances we will have to settle for the Verified Hand Search but we consider the circumstances whereby negative Searches in the Registry of Deeds take more than two months before they can be inspected an in tolerable position. We would be grateful if you would place this letter before your Society's relevant Committee for t'hem to make a strong protest and complaint to re: Registry of Deeds

the Registrar. Perhaps if enough complaints were funnelled to the Registrar his Superiors would have to supply him with the necessary further staff or whatever. Yours truly, Farrell & Farrell. Solicitors, Waterford. A Chara, I am directed by the Minister for Social Wel fare to refer to your recent letter concerning the insurability of solicitors' apprentices under the Social Welfare (Occupational Injuries) Act, 1966 and to inform you that provision was made in the Social Welfare (Insurable (Occupational Injuries) Employment) Regulatione, 1967 (S.I. No. 80 of 1967) where by any employment which has been exclluded from social insurance on the grounds that it is of inconsiderable extent shall not be ex cluded from insurance for occupational injuries purposes. Persons, including solicitors' appren tices; in employment of inconsiderable extent are liable to suffer injury during the course of such employment and should, accordingly, be eligible to receive occupational injuries benefit. No ex clusion on the ground that employment is of in considerable extent was made in the Workmen's Compensation Acts, 1934 to 1955, and it is not intended that occupational injuries insurance should have a more limited application than those Acts. Occupational injuries insurance is wider in many respects than insurance for other benefits under the Social Welfare Acts, including not only employment of inconsiderable extent but also em ployment which is excluded from insurance for other purposes under the Social Welfare (Sub sidiary Employment) Regulations, 1953 (S.I. No. 18 of 1953) and casual employment in or about the residence of the employer. Consequently, the Minister is not prepared to extend the provisions of the Social Welfare (Employment of Inconsider able Extent) (No. 2) Regulations, 1953, to cover occupational injuries insurance. I am to add that the insurance of solicitors' apprentices for occupational injuries purposes is in accordance with the intentions of the legislature (v. Report of Dail Eireann, 3rd February, 1966, cols 837-42 and 8th February, 1966, cols 1066-7). Solicitors' apprentices are also insurable under 68 re: Apprentices: Social Welfare