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S.I. No. 359/1992 - The Solicitors' Acts 1954 and 1960 (Apprenticeship and Education) (Amendment) Regulations, 1992.

S.I. No. 359 of 1992.

THE SOLICITORS' ACTS 1954 AND 1960 (APPRENTICESHIP AND EDUCATION) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1992.

The Incorporated Law Society of Ireland in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Sections 4 , 5 and 40 of the Solicitors Act, 1954 , hereby makes the following Regulations:—

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Solicitors Acts, 1954 and 1960 (Apprenticeship and Education) (Amendment) Regulations, 1992 and shall come into operation on the first day of December 1992.

2. In these Regulations "the Principal Regulations" means the Solicitors Acts, 1954 and 1960 (Apprenticeship and Education) Regulations, 1991 ( S.I. No. 9 of 1991 ).

3. The Principal Regulations are hereby amended by the substitution of the following for Regulation 8 (a) (iv):

"(iv) have passed or have been exempted by the committee from the Preliminary Examination."

4. Regulation 16 of the Principal Regulations is hereby amended as follows:

( a ) By the insertion of the following clause after (e) thereof:

"( f ) notwithstanding that a person has complied with the provisions of Regulation 15 (a) or Regulation 15 (b), if that person does not commence the Professional Course within a period of five years from the first day of October in the year in which such a person obtained a degree in law granted by one of the universities named in Regulation 15 (a), such a person shall cease, upon the expiration of that period of five years, to be entitled to commence the Professional Course unless he shall first sit and be declared by the Committee to have passed all the subjects comprising the Final Examination — First Part."

5. The appendix to the Principal Regulations is hereby amended by the insertion in its alphabetical order of the following:

"Criminal Law and Procedure."

Dated this 30th day of November, 1992

Signed on behalf of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland

RAYMOND T. MONAHAN,

President of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.