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management and control, involving new or redefined roles for the Minister for the Environment, the Environ- mental Protection Agency and local authorities. Provision would also be made for measures designed to require or promote prevention, minimisation and recovery of waste as well as a flexible statutory framework for implementing national and international (including EU) requirements on waste management.

under indentures of apprenticeship of persons or specified categories of persons seeking to be admitted as solicitors. The most significant feature of this change is that the new two year period of apprenticeship as required by the Solicitors (Amendment) Act 1994 will not now commence until the person seeking admission as a solicitor is deemed to have successfully completed the Law Society's Professional Course. To this end, the Regulations amend the Solicitors Acts 1954 and 1960 (Apprenticeship and Education) Regulations 1991 in relation to the requirements for becoming bound by indentures of apprenticeship and in relation to the required courses of education or training (or both) and the required examinations for persons seeking to be admitted as solicitors. The Regulations came into operation on 1 May 1995. Garden Village Construction Co. Ltd v. Wicklow County Council Supreme Court (Egan, Blayney and Denham JJ) [1994] 2 ILRM 527 Planning and Development - Refusal of extension to period of planning permission - Requirement that substantial works should have been carried out pursuant to planning permission - No works carried out on land subject to the planning permission - Whether works carried out on adjoining land which would benefit the land subject to planning permission could be regarded as having been carried out pursuant to the planning permission - Local Government (Planning and Development) Act 1963, s. 24 - Local Government (Planning and Development) Act 1982, s. 4 LOCAL GOVERNMENT

ENERGY

European Communities (Minimum Stocks of Petroleum Oils) Regulations 1995 (SI No. 96 of 1995) These Regulations give effect to Council Directives 68/414/EEC and 72/425/EEC and revoke the European Communities (Minimum Stocks of Petroleum Oils) Regulations 1974 - 1977. Under the Council Directives, Member States are required to maintain minimum stocks of petroleum oil products. Up to now, responsibility had been placed on oil importers and oil consumers to maintain minimum oil reserves. These Regulations provide for the establishment of a national stock holding agency to whom that responsibility will now be devolved. The Regulations provide that the costs incurred by the agency will be funded by a levy on oil sales and collected by the agency from oil companies based on market share (as calculated by the Minister in accordance with the Regulations). The Regulations came into effect on 1 June 1995. Arterial Drainage (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 1995 This Bill, presented by Senator Maurice Manning and passed by Seanad Eireann on 17 May 1995, aims to amend and extend the Arterial Drainage Act 1945 and to provide for related matters, including the prevention or relief of localised flooding including flooding in urban and residential areas. (The Arterial Drainage (Amendment) Bill 1995 (cf. (1995) 13 ILT 91) was defeated at its second stage.) Waste Bill 1995 This Bill, as presented by the Minister for the Environment, aims to establish a modern and comprehensive legislative frame-work for the prevention, manage-ment and control of waste. The Bill would provide for improved public sector organisational arrangements for waste planning, ENVIRONMENT

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

European Communities (Amend- ment) Act 1995 (No. 6 of 1995) This Act was signed by the President on 23 May 1995. (Cf (1995) 13 ILT 146.)

HEALTH AND SAFETY

Dangerous Substances (Amendment) Regulations 1995 (SI No. 103 of 1995) These Regulations extend the definition of container used in the Dangerous Substances (Retail and Private Petroleum Stores) Regulations 1979, the Dangerous Substances (Oil Jetties) Regulations 1979, the Dangerous Substances (Petroleum Bulk Stores) Regulations 1979 and the Dangerous Substances (Conveyance of Petroleum by Road) Regulations 1979. The present regulations provide for the use of any packaging that is referrred to in Marginals 2305, 2306 and 2307 of the ADR Agreement and meets the relevant requirements of Appendix A.5 or Appendix A.6 of that agreement, as published by the UN in 1995 (ECE Trans/110 Vols I & II). The Regulations came into operation on 2 May 1995.

LEGAL EDUCATION

ROAD TRAFFIC

Solicitors

Acts

1954

1994

(Apprenticeship Education) (Amendment) Regulations 1995 (SI No. 102 of 1995) These Regulations provide, inter alia, for a change in the term of service and

Road Traffic Act 1995 (No. 7 of 1995) This Act was signed by the President on 25 May 1995. (Cf (1995) 13 ILT 147.)

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