S.I. No. 94/1960 - The Solicitors Act, 1954 (Apprenticeship and Education) (Amendment) Regulations, 1960.

		S.I. No. 94 of 1960.
		THE SOLICITORS ACT, 1954 (APPRENTICESHIP AND EDUCATION) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1960.
		The Incorporated Law Society of Ireland in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 4, 5, and 40, of the Solicitors Act, 1954 and of every other power thereunto them enabling, hereby make the following regulations :— 1. These regulations may be cited as the Solicitors Act, 1954 (Apprenticeship and Education) (Amendment) Regulations, 1960 and shall come into operation on the 28th day of April, 1960. 2. These regulations shall be read together with the Solicitors Act, 1954 (Apprenticeship and Education) Regulations, 1955 ( S.I. No. 217 of 1955 ) and the Solicitors Act, 1954 (Apprenticeship and Education) (Amendment) Regulations, 1956 ( S.I. No. 307 of 1956 ) and shall in so far as they are inconsistent therewith alter and amend the same. 3. Regulation 22 of the Solicitors Act, 1954 (Apprenticeship and Education) Regulations, 1955 ( S.I. No. 217 of 1955 ) is revoked and the following regulation is substituted therefor :—
		22. Society's lectures.
		(1) The Society shall provide or arrange for the provision of a course of lectures on each of the following subjects :
		(a) company law.
		(b) conveyancing law and practice and land law.
		(c) the procedure and practice of the Courts.
		(d) tax law.
		(e) book-keeping.
		(f) the law of wills and probate and executorship law and practice.
		(g) the rights, duties and responsibilities of solicitors.
		(2) The Council may appoint and remunerate lecturers. Each lecturer shall be appointed for a year certain and shall be eligible for reappointment but his term of office shall not exceed five years in all unless the Council by resolution on notice shall otherwise direct.
		(3) The Court of Examiners shall submit recommendations to the Council as to the programme of lectures and the Council may adopt the same with such alterations as they may think fit and may from time to time alter or amend the programme after referring the matter to the Court of Examiners and considering their report thereon.
		(4) The programme of lectures shall prescribe the conditions which must be fulfilled by an apprentice in order to obtain credit for lectures, the number of lectures on each subject, the place, dates and duration of lectures and such other matters as the Council shall think fit.
		(5) Each apprentice seeking admission shall produce to the Society evidence that he has attended and obtained credit for the lectures prescribed by this regulation in accordance with the provisions and conditions of the published programme. A certificate of credit for such lectures may be withheld by the lecturer if he is not satisfied with the attendance of an apprentice or with his conduct. A certificate of credit for attendance at lectures shall be in form AE. 8 in the schedule hereto. 4. The following form of certificate of credit for lectures shall be substituted for form AE. 8 in the schedule of forms to the Solicitors Act 1954 (Apprenticeship and Education) Regulations 1955 ( S.I. No. 217 of 1955 ).
		FORM AE. 8. Certificate of credit for lectures.
		I hereby certify that of
		has attended a course of lectures in
		delivered by me during the session 19 , and that I have given him credit for the said lectures.
		Dated this day of 19
		(Signed),
		Lecturer.
		Signed on behalf of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland, this 28th day of April, 1960.
		JOHN J. NASH,
		President of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
		EXPLANATORY NOTE.
		The changes made by these regulations in the previous system are as follows—(a) the combined course (a) and (f) mentioned in regulation 22 (1) is divided into two full courses (b) the requirement that a resolution extending the term of office of a lecturer beyond five years must be passed before the expiration of the said period is revoked (c) the requirement of term examinations is revoked.