The Gazette 1984

MARCH 1984

GAZETTE

For Your Diary . . . 7/8 April 1984 Society of Young Solicitors Spring Seminar. Old Ground Hotel, Ennis, Co. Clare. Topics include "Current Aspects of Banking Practice" (Speaker: Daniel O'Keefe, B.C.L., LL.B., A.C.A.); "Some Legal Problems in enacting Divorce Legisla- tion — Facing the day after" (Speaker: Patrick Horgan, Lecturer in Law, UCC); "Arbitral Affairs" (Speaker: Max W. Abrahamson, Solicitor); "Practical Aspects of Risk Protection for the Client and the Solicitor" (Speaker: Michael P. Houlihan, Solicitor). 3/6 May 1984 Law Society Annual Conference. Europe Hotel, Killarney, Co. Kerry. Brochures giving full details and booking forms available shortly from Ms. M. O'Connor, Law Society, Blackhall Place, Dublin 7. 16 June 1984. Solicitors' Apprentices Debating Society of Ireland. Centenary Ball. President's Hall, Blackhall Place, Dublin 7. Tickets £21.00 each. (Apprentices — £10.00 each.) 3/7 September, 1984. International Bar Association 20th Biennial Conference. Programmes available from Margaret Byrne at the Law Society, Blackhall Place, Dublin 7 or from the IBA, 2 Harewood Place, London W1R9HB.

accepted in international conventions. Not affected by the Regulations are those non-metric units of measurement not specifically withdrawn from use. In other words, such units of measurement as the pint, the mile, the pound and the ounce are not outlawed. In fact, the Directive provides that the use of these and other units of measurement are authorised until a date which will be fixed by the EEC Council. Finally, it is to be regretted that the Regulations, which amount to not much more than a direct transcription of the Directive, leave the situation with regard to units of measurement in a state of uncertainty. This fact is not helped by the usual surreptitious manner in which the Regulations were introduced. A more general criticism is the altogether unsatisfactory practice of amending Acts of Parliament by Statutory Instrument. • Footnotes 1. Statutory Instrument No. 235 of 1983. 2. Council Directive 8 0 / 1 8 1 / EEC of 20/12/1979. O.J. L39 15/2/80 page 40. 3. Systeme Internationale as adopted by the International Organisa- tion for Standardisation in 1974. 4. European Communities (Units of Measurement) Regulations of 1976 — Repealed by the 1983 Regulations. 5. Schedule 2 provides a short list of highly technical units of measurement, the use of which is authorised only until December 1985. Schedule 3 describes the national standards for the metre and the kilogram. They are deposited with the MRS.

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