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CORRESPONDENCE
Wexford Seminar
21 Ely Place,
London E.C.I.
1st March 1972.
to The Editor of the
Gazette
Dear Sir,
I congratulate you on the full coverage of the Wex-
ford Seminar on "Solicitors in Europe".
I was privileged to be one of the speakers at this
conference which I found most stimulating and also
encouraging as to the interest being shown by your
legal profession.
The reports of the papers given were obviously put
together as quickly as possible in the interests of news
but I should like, however, respectfully to draw your
attention to the fact that a number of reporting errors
crept in to the report on my own paper. I am not
proposing to list all of these, but do feel that the
following if not corrected might give a misleading
impression.
(1) The administrative powers of the Community are
vested in the Commission alone and not together with
the Council of Ministers.
(2) It is the final appellate courts which must refer
any questions affecting construction of the Treaty to
the European Court—and this is not necessarily limited
to the House of Lords. Any other court may so refer.
(3) Harmonisation and approximation of laws is laid
down by Article 200 and not 100.
4) The French profession to which I referred was
that of Conseil Juridique.
(5) The Benelux Convention on avocats has been
ratified by Belgium and the Netherlands and not by
Luxembourg.
Yours faithfully,
S. A. CROSSICK.
Bulletin from Allied Irish Banks Ltd.
Re integration of the Munster and Leinster Bank
Limited, Provincial Bank of Ireland Limited, and the
Royal Bank of Ireland Limited ("the transferor com-
panies") with Allied Irish Banks Limited and its effect
on executor and trustee appointments.
On 1st April 1972 ("the transfer date") the businesses
of banking, including the executor and trustee business,
carried on by the transferor companies in the Republic
of Ireland and in Northern Ireland will with statutory
approval be transferred to Allied Irish Banks Limited,
a public company of which the transferor companies
are wholly owned subsidiaries.
The transfer will not call for any action by solicitors
or their clients as regards existing appointments of any
of the transferor companies to act as executors and/or
trustees of wills or settlements. The application of
Section 39 of the Central Bank Act, 1971 (Republic of
Ireland) and Section 5 of the Allied Irish Banks Act
(Northern Ireland), 1971, to the transfer will operate to
secure that after the transfer date in such appointments
the name of Allied Irish Banks Limited shall be read for
that of any of the transferor companies which may have
been named in the original appointment.
In the case of appointments made after the transfer
date (1st April 1972) the name of Allied Irish Banks
Limited should be used in the place of that of any of
the transferor companies. Allied Irish Banks Limited is
a trust corporation under the laws of the Republic of
Ireland and of Northern Ireland. In the case of wills
the appointment clause should read :
I appoint Allied Irish Banks Limited (hereinafter
called "the Bank") to be the Executor and Trustee of
this my Will upon the terms and conditions and with
and subject to the powers and provisions set forth
and contained in the Bank's published regulations
(as now in force) governing its appointment to act as
executor and trustee to the intent that the same shall
apply and have effect as if set forth herein.
New booklets containing the Regulations governing the
appointment of Allied Irish Banks Limited to act as
executor and/or trustee of wills and settlements are now
available and may be obtained on request to either of
the undermentioned offices of the Executor and Trustee
Department. The terms and conditions under which
Allied Irish Banks Limited will take up such appoint-
ments will be, by and large, similar to those which
applied in the cases of the transferor companies.
Note : Since Allied Irish Banks Limited may now act
as executor and trustee in its own right, there is no
reason why its name should not be used even before the
transfer date in all such appointments, and indeed this
course is strongly recommended.
Drawing on the experience and expertise of the com-
bined staffs of the former Executor and Trustee Depart-
ments of the Transferor Companies, a new Executor
and Trustee Department has been established by Allied
Irish Banks Limited on an integrated basis with offices
at Dublin and Cork. Enquiries and correspondence
may be directed to either of these offices addressed as
follows :
Allied Irish Banks Limited, Executor and Trustee
Department, 20 College Green, Dublin 2. Telephone
(01) 771294.
Allied Irish Banks Limited, Executor and Trustee
Department, 66 South Mall, Cork. Telephone (021)
26811.
A .
J .
GLEESON.
Chief Executor and Trustee Manager.
March 1972.
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