The Gazette 1973

CORRESPONDENCE

Proposed Allied Irish Banks Scholarship at Law Society

Allied Irish Banks Limited (Legal Dept.),

3-4 Foster Place, Dublin 2,

24 January 1973.

E. A. Plunkett, Esq. (Secretary).

Dear Mr. Plunkett,

Receipt is acknowledged of your letter of the 23rd

instant enclosing the text of a short notice which you

propose to publish in the Society's

Gazette.

I note from

the text that it is now proposed to award the prize on

the results of the paper on Company Law in the

Final

Examination.

In your letter of 24 November last you intimated

that it would be on the Company Law paper in the

Second Lw Examination.

I would also mention that there is a typographical

error in line three, the word "by" immediately after the

word "accept" should read "with".

Yours sincerely,

E. Rory O'Connor.

Department of Foreign Affairs.

7 February 1973.

E. A. Plunkett, Esq. (Secretary).

Dear Sir,

I am directed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs to

refer to your letter of 25 January 1973 concerning the

establisment of a depository library for material relat-

ing to the European Communities.

I am to inform you that the National Library has

now been designated a depository library and will

receie all the publications of the institutions of the

Communities. The library has already begun to receive

this documentation and its facilities are, of course,

aailable to the general public. It is noted that the

Society has applied for designation as a European

Documentation Centre.

The Minister is of opinion that, if the legal profession

requires additional documentation facilities, it is for

the profession itself to arrange this.

Yours faithfully,

H. McCann (Secretary).

Guest Lane, Williams & Co.,

32-34 South Mall, Cork.

1 January 1973.

E. A. Plunkett, Esq. (Secretary).

Dear Sir,

We understand that for some time past the Depart-

ment has been considering a Bill to amend the Landlord

and Tenant Act with particular reference to revision of

rents every seven years in twenty-one year leases if and

when the Bill will become law. We shall be very glad

to hear from you with any information which may be

available to you regarding the proposed Bill and whether

the proposals are likely to come into operation soon.

Yours faithfully,

Guest, Lane, Williams & Co., Solicitors, Cork.

10 January 1973.

The Secretary,

Department of Justice,

Dublin 2.

Dear Sir,

I enclose copy of a letter received by the Society from

Guest Lane Williams & Co., Solicitors, Cork, and I shall

be obliged if you can supply any information on this

subject.

Yours faithfully,

Eric A. Plunkett (Secretary).

Department of Justice,

72-76 St. Stephen's Green.

26 January 1973

E. A. Plunkett, Esq. (Secretary).

Dear Sir,

I am directed by the Minister for Justice to refer to

your letter (EAP. L/55/73) of 10 January 1973 with a

copy of a letter from Messrs Guest Lane Williams &

Company, Solicitors, Bank of Ireland Chambers, 32-24

South Mall, Cork, regarding proposd landlord and

tenant legislation with particular reference to the

revision of rents every seven years in certain leases.

The Landlord and Tenant Commission, in their

Report entitled "Report on Occupational Tenancies

under the Landlord and Tenant Act, 1931" (Pr. No.

9685), have recommended (para. 269) that a tenancy

that is renewed under Part III of the Landlord and

Tenant Act, 1931, should contain provision for a review

of the rent at the end of every seventh year of the

renewed tenancy on the application of either the land-

lord or the tenant. A comprehensive landlord and

tenant Bill, which will include proposals arising out of

the recommendations of the Commission, is at an ad-

vanced stage of preparation. It would not, however, be

possible to indicate a date for the circulation and publi-

cation of this Bill.

Yours faithfully,

R. B. Toal.

22 February 1973

Dear Mr. Plunkett,

Just recently I completed the purchase of a new

house by way of lease to be registered as a burden on

the lessors freehold folio (the lease contained a consent

to the lease being registered as a burden) and made the

usual searches in the Judgments, Bankruptcy and Sher-

iffs offices and in the Registry of Deeds, Land Registry

and Companies Office which were all clear. We also got

a letter from the lessors solicitors consenting to the use

of the land certificate for the purpose of the registration.

When I lodged my client's lease to be retgstered the

Land Registry refused to accept the lease for registra-

tion as there was a letter attached to the Land Certi-

ficate from a city firm of solicitors acting for a mort-

gagee (by equitable deposit) who had lodged the Land

Certificate for the purpose of registering any leases but

stipulating that any lease or other dealing was not to