S.I. No. 108/1970 - Solicitors' Act, 1954 (Apprenticeship and Education) (Amendment) Regulations, 1970

		S.I. No. 108 of 1970.
		SOLICITORS' ACT, 1954 (APPRENTICESHIP AND EDUCATION) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1970
		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, 1970 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 ), 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 1965 ( S.I. No. 201 of 1965 ), the Solicitors' Act, 1954 (Apprenticeship and Education) (Amendment) Regulations, 1966 ( S.I. No. 230 of 1966 ) the Solicitors' Act, 1954 (Apprenticeship and Education) (Amendment) Regulations, 1968 ( S.I. No. 17 of 1968 and the Solicitors' Act, 1954 (Apprenticeship and Education) (Amendment) Regulations, 1969 ( S.I. No. 110 of 1969 (which may be cited collectively as the Solicitors' Act, 1954 (Apprenticeship and Education) Regulations, 1955-1970). 2. These regulations shall come into operation on the 14th day of May, 1970. 3. Sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 16 of the Principal Regulations shall be deleted and the following sub-paragraph shall be substituted therefor.
		(2) The subjects at the first law examination shall be the law of tort, the law of contract and the law of real property. 4. Sub-paragraph (3) of paragraph 19 of the Principal Regulations shall be deleted and the following sub-paragraph shall be substituted.
		(3) The subjects at the second law examination shall be equity, company law and the law of partnership, conveyancing and registration of title, the practice and procedure of the superior courts (including bankruptcy), criminal law and the law of evidence. 5. Sub-paragraph (3) of paragraph 20 of the Principal Regulations shall be deleted and the following sub-paragraph shall be substituted.
		(3) The subjects for the third law examination shall be tax law, commercial law, the practice and procedure of the inferior courts, the law and practice in connection with wills and the administration of estates and land law.
		Signed on behalf of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland this
		14th day of May, 1970.
		JAMES R. C. GREEN,
		President of the Incorporated Law
		Society of Ireland.
		EXPLANATORY NOTE.
		The effect of these regulations is to authorise certain minor changes in the syllabi for the first, second and third law examinations.