Solicitors (Amendment) Act, 1994

Fee-sharing by solicitors.

71.—(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 59 of the Principal Act, the Society, with the concurrence of the Minister and, in the case of regulations made under paragraph (a) of this subsection, after consultation with the Minister for Enterprise and Employment, may make regulations in respect of—

(a) the sharing of fees between a solicitor and a person who is not qualified to practise as a solicitor arising either from a partnership between them or from an agency arrangement concluded between them, or

(b) the sharing of fees between a solicitor and a person who is not qualified to practise as a solicitor but who is a member, and entitled to practise as such, of a legal profession in another jurisdiction, arising either from a partnership between them or from an agency arrangement concluded between them.

(2) Every regulation made under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the regulation is passed by either such House within the next 21 days on which that House has sat after the regulation is laid before it, the regulation shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.