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S.I. No. 230/1966 - Solicitors Act, 1954 (Apprenticeship and Education) (Amendment) Regulations, 1966.

S.I. No. 230 of 1966.

SOLICITORS ACT, 1954 (APPRENTICESHIP AND EDUCATION) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1966.

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, 1966, and shall be read together with the Solicitors Act, 1954 (Apprenticeship and Education) Regulations, 1955 ( S.I. No. 217 of 1955 ) (hereinafter called " the Principal Regulations ") the Solicitors Act, 1954 (Apprenticeship and Education) (Amendment) Regulations, 1956 ( S.I. No. 307 of 1956 ) and the Solicitors Act, 1954 (Apprenticeship and Education) (Amendment) Regulations, 1965 ( S.I. No. 201 of 1965 ) which may be cited collectively as the Solicitors Act, 1954 (Apprenticeship and Education) Regulations, 1956 to 1966.

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 1st day of January, 1967.

3. The Interpretation Act, 1937 , shall apply for the purpose of the interpretation of these regulations as it applies for the purpose of the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas, except in so far as it may be inconsistent with the Act or with these regulations.

4. Paragraph 10 of the Principal Regulations is hereby revoked and the following paragraph is substituted therefor:—

10. The subjects at the preliminary examination shall be as follows:—

(a) English, Latin and Mathematics, together with any two of the following subjects:

(b) History, Geography, Greek, a modern language (other than Irish), Logic.

5. Sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 11 of the Principal Regulations is hereby revoked, and the following sub-paragraph is substituted therefor:—

(2) An intending apprentice who produces to the Society a certificate that he has passed the open public Matriculation or entrance examination of any of the Universities in Ireland shall be exempt from the preliminary examination provided that the subjects in which he has passed include English, Latin and Mathematics.

6. The Solicitors Act, 1954 (Apprenticeship and Education) Regullations, 1955 ( S.I. No. 90 of 1955 ) are hereby revoked.

Signed on behalf of The Incorporated Law Society of Ireland this 29th day of September, 1966.

ROBERT McD. TAYLOR,

President of The Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The main object of these regulations is to bring the syllabus for the preliminary examination into line with that of the leaving certificate and Matriculation examinations, particularly as regards Mathematics. Irish is not included as an optional subject for the Preliminary examination as each intending Apprentice must pass the statutory examination in Irish.