The Gazette 1967/71

remunerated by lump sum payments at irregular intervals was held to be gainfully employed within the National Insurance Act 1946. As a result of the Social Welfare (Employment of In considerable Extent) Regulations 1953 (S.I. No. 290, 1953) employment for less than 18 hours in a contribution week where the employed person is not mainly dependent for his livelihood solely on the remuneration received from such employ ment is excluded from compulsory insurance. The Redundency Payments Act provides in Section 7 sub-section 4 that the dismissal of an apprentice within one month after the expiry of an apprenticeship agreement shall not give rise to rights to redundancy payment. LAW LECTURES The Society wrote to the various University Colleges in Dublin, Cork and Galway and to Trinity College to enquire whether lectures on criminal law and practice, the law of evidence and commercial law are provided for solicitors appren tices who wish to avail of them as occasional students. The subjects are in most instances in cluded in a degree course but for the non degree students the position in the various colleges is as follows : — U.C.D. Lectures in criminal law and the law of evidence are provided with tutorials which may be taken by students not proceeding to a degree for an addi tional fee. The lectures on criminal law do not include criminal practice and procedure. Com mercial law is not taught in the law faculty except insofar as is covered in the courses of property and contract but lectures in commercial law are provided in the faculty of commerce. Enquiries are being made from the Dean of the Faculty of Commerce as to the position regarding solicitors' apprentices. U.C.C. Lectures on criminal law and procedure are provided which may be attended by solicitors' apprentices on payment of the appropriate course fee. It is stated that personal property courses covers most of the commercial law subjects but may .be treated more fully in the faculty of com merce. Apprentices would be admitted to the lec tures in the faculty of commerce subject to availability of space and the adjustment of the timetable. A number of the solicitors' apprentices do so for the lectures on criminal law and pro cedure. 72

4. Parliamentary Committee —Senator J. J. Nash, chairman, Francis A. Armstrong, Walter Beatty, Bruce St. J. Blake, Thomas J Fitzpatrick, Gerald Hickey, Thomas Jackson, Patrick G. Moore, Patrick O'Donnell, T.D. 5. Privileges Committee— Patrick C. Moore, chairman, John Carrigan, G. Y. Goldberg, Gerald Hickey, Thomas Jackson, Eunan McCarron, Pat rick Noonan, John C. O'Carroll, Daniel J. O'Connor, Thomas E. O'Donnell, John O'Meara. 6. Court Offices and Costs— John Maher, chair man, Joseph L. Dundon, James R. G. Green, Christopher Hogan, Peter E. O'Connell, Rory O'Connor, Norman Spendlove, R. McD. Taylor, Bernard J. Carroll, T. V. O'Connor. 7. Court of Examiners— James W. O'Donovan, chairman, Joseph Black, Desmond J. Collins, Desmond Moran, Daniel J. O'Connor. The Pre sident, vice-Presidents and immediate past Presi dent ex-offico members of all Council committees except Nos. 1 and 2. 8. Disciplinary Committee— James R. G. Green, Eunan McCarron, George A. Nolan, Thomas A. O'Reilly, Peter D. M. Prentice, Dermot George G. Overend, Peter D. M. Prentice, Dermot P. Shaw, Robert McD. Taylor, Ralph J. Walker, REDUNDANCY PAYMENTS ACT 1967 Members should note that they are required to stamp redundancy cards in respect of all em ployees in employment which is insurable for all benefits under the Social Welfare Acts 1952-66 except: — (a) Persons not normally expected to work for the same employer for more than 21 hours in a week. Persons closely related to the employer : The relationships include father and son, grandfather and grandson, brother, etc. but not uncle and nephew. is an obligation to stamp Social Welfare Cards in res pect of an apprentice there is also an obligation to stamp redundancy cards. The obligation to stamp Social Welfare cards in respect of an apprentice arises where the apprentice is gainfully employed : in the case Benjamin v. The Minister of Pensions and National Insurance 1960 2A.E.R. 581 reported in the Society's Gazette vol. 54, page 44 an apprentice who received no salary but was (b) Employee as defined in the Act includes an apprentice and accordingly where there