S.I. No. 201/1965:

SOLICITORS ACTS 1954 (APPRENTICESHIP AND EDUCATION) AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1965.

SOLICITORS ACTS 1954 (APPRENTICESHIP AND EDUCATION) AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1965.

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

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 23rd day of September, 1965.

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. The following sub-paragraph shall be substituted for sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 16 of the Principal Regulations.

(2) The subjects for the first law examination shall be the law of real property, the law of personal property (restricted to bailments and liens, the rights, duties and liabilities of common carriers, innkeepers and hotel proprietors, the Sale of Goods Acts, gifts, mortgages and pledges of goods and bills of sale) the law of contract and the law of tort.

5. The following sub-paragraph shall be substituted for sub-paragraph (3) of paragraph 20 of the Principal Regulations :

(3) The subjects for the third law examination shall be the law of wills, probate and administration of estates (contentious and non-contentious), tax law, criminal law and practice, the law of evidence, commercial law, (the Bills of Exchange Acts, Sales of Goods Acts, Hire Purchase Acts and insurance, excluding marine insurance, the law of patents, trade marks and copyright) and the practice of the Circuit and District Courts.

Signed on behalf of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland this 23rd day of September, 1965.

JOHN MAHER,

President of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The effect of these Regulations is to define the law of personal property for the purpose of the second law examination and to transfer the subject of the law of patents, trade marks and copyright from the first law examination to the third law examination held under the Solicitors Act 1954 .