Solicitors Act, 1954

Transitional provisions.

88.—(1) A person who is not a solicitor and who has passed any examination under the Solicitors (Ireland) Act, 1898, or under section 4 of the Legal Practitioners (Qualification) Act, 1929 (No. 16 of 1929), shall be deemed to have passed the corresponding examination under this Act.

(2) Where at the commencement of this section, a solicitor has two apprentices, he may retain them until the expiration of their indentures as if he had obtained the consent of the Society under subsection (2) of section 36 of this Act.

(3) Any admission, appointment, approval, fee, notice, certificate, instrument, order, rule, regulation, direction, appeal or proceeding under or for the purposes of an enactment repealed by this Act shall be treated as being under or for the purposes of the corresponding enactment of this Act, and—

(a) any such order, rule or regulation shall remain in force until corresponding provision is made under this Act, and

(b) any such proceeding which was brought before the committee established under section 34 of the Solicitors (Ireland) Act, 1898, and which stood not completed immediately before the commencement of this section shall be completed by the Disciplinary Committee in like manner as if this Act had not been passed.

(4) From the commencement of this section until the first appointment under subsection (1) of section 13 of this Act, the Disciplinary Committee shall consist of the persons who immediately before the commencement of this section were the members of the committee established under section 34 of the Solicitors (Ireland) Act, 1898.