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Statutory Instruments
SOLICITORS' PRACTISING CERTIFICATE
FEES REGULATIONS 1971
S.I. No. 341 of 1971
By virtue and in pursuance of Sections 4, 5, 79 and 82
of the Solicitors Act, 1954, the Incorporated Law
Society of Ireland hereby make the following regula-
tions :
(1) From and after the date of these regulations the
fees specified in the schedule hereto shall be paid to the
Society by the applicant in respect of the matters therein
mentioned.
(2) These regulations shall come into operation on
the 13th Day of December 1971.
(3) The Solicitors Act 1954 (Fees) Regulations 1968
(S.I. No. 240 of 1968) and the Solicitors Act (Fees)
(Amendment) Regulations 1970 (S.I. No. 275 of 1970)
are revoked as from the date of operation of these
regulations as regards applications for practising certi-
ficates for the practice year 1972/73 or any later prac-
tice year but shall continue to apply to applications for
practising certificates for the practice year 1971/72 or
any earlier practice year.
(4) These regulations may be cited as the Solicitors'
Practising Certificate Fees Regulations 1971.
Schedule
(1) On application for a practising certificate for the
year 1972/73 or any later practice year by a solicitor
^ho practises or carries on his business in the City of
Lublin or within three miles therefrom
£31.00
(2) On application for a practising certificate by a
solicitor who does not practise or carry on his business
m the City of Dublin or within three miles there-
from
£28.00
(3) On application under Section 17 of the Solicitors
(Amendment) Act 1960 for a copy of an entry on File A
o r
File B
£1.00
Dated this 13th Day of December 1971.
Signed on behalf of the Incorporated Law Society of
Ireland.
BRENDAN A . MCGRATH
President of the Incorporated
Law Society of Ireland.
Explanatory
Note
This note is not part of the regulations and does not
purport to be a legal interpretation thereof.
The fee payable by a solicitor on taking out a prac-
tising certificate is raised from £21 to £31 in the case of
a solicitor practising in Dublin and from £18 to £28 in
the case of a solicitor practising elsewhere. The fee
payable for a copy of an entry on File A or File B is
unchanged.
SOLICITORS' (PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE,
CONDUCT AND DISCIPLINE) (AMENDMENT)
REGULATIONS 1971
S.I. No. 344 of 1971
The Incorporated Law Society of Ireland in exercise of
the powers conferred on them by Sections 4, 5 and 71
of the Solicitors Act 1954 hereby make the following
regulations :
(1) These regulations may be cited as the Solicitors'
(Professional Practice, Conduct and Discipline) (Amend-
ment) Regulations 1971.
(2) These regulations shall come into operation on
the 16th Day of December 1971.
(3) In these regulations the term "the Principal Regu-
lations" means the Solicitors Act 1954 (Professional
Practice, Conduct and Discipline) Regulations 1955
(S.I. No. 151 of 1955).
(4) These regulations shall be read together with the
Principal Regulations and shall insofar as they are
inconsistent therewith alter and amend the same and
may be cited as the Solicitors' (Professional Practice,
Conduct and Discipline) Regulations 1955-71.
(5) Paragraph 5 of the Principal Regulations is heieby
revoked and the following paragraph is substituted.
(5) A solicitor shall not obtain or attempt to obtain
professional business by directly or indirectly without
reasonable justification inviting instructions for such
business or doing or permitting to be done without
reasonable justification anything which by its manner,
frequency or otherwise advertises his practice as a
solicitor or doing or permitting to be done anything
which may reasonably be regarded as touting and it
shall be the duty of a solicitor to make reasonable
enquiry before accepting instructions for the purpose
of ascertaining whether the acceptance of such
instructions would involve a breach of this regulation.
(6) Paragraph 8 of the Principal Regulations is hereby
revoked and the following paragraph is substituted.
(8) A solicitor shall not accept an appointment by
or act as solicitor for any client or body other than
the State on the basis that he will be remunerated by
a fixed salary irrespective of the amount of work
performed or to be performed by him as solicitor
for such client or body unless such solicitor shall hold
a wholetime appointment under a contract which
provides that he shall act as solicitor for such client
or body exclusively.
Dated this 16th day of December 1971.
Signed on behalf of the Incorporated Law Society of
Ireland.
JAMES S. O'DONOVAN
President of the Incorporated
Law Society of Ireland.
Explanatory Note
This note is not part of the regulations and does not
purport to be a legal interpretation thereof.
The regulations (1) restate the restrictions on the
manner in which solicitors may obtain or attempt to
obtain professional business and (2) clarify an ambi-
guity in paragraph 8 of the principal regulations.
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