The Gazette 1996

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PARLIAMENTARY COMMI TTEE

LEGISLATION UPDATE -

November

1996

No. Title of Act and date passed

Commencement date/s

3 2.

Health

(Amendment)

(No 3) Act, 1996

(6 N o v e m b e r . 1 9 9 6)

Makes

further

provision

in relation

to the financial

accountability

of health

boards

and their administration.

Amends

the

H e a l th A c t s.

1 9 4 7 - 1 9 9 4.

the

H e a l th ( C o r p o r a te B o d i e s) A c t . 1961,

and

the

N u r s e s A c t, 1985.

C o m m e n c e m e n t o r d e r /s to b e m a d e

f o r c e r t a in s e c t i o ns

3 3.

Family

Law (I)ivoree)

Act. 1996

( 27 N o v e m b e r . 1 9 9 6)

Provides

for the exercise

by the Circuit

and High Courts

of the

jurisdiction

to grant decrees

of divorce,

conferred

by the

fifteenth

amendment

of the

Constitution.

27 F e b r u a r y. 1 9 97

(per

s e c t i on 1 of t he A c t )

SELECTED STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1 7 8 / 1 9 96

Solicitors

(Professional

Names/Notepaper)

Regulations,

1996

3 1 2 / 1 9 9 6

Social

Welfare

(Consolidated

Contributions

and

Insurability)

Regulations,

1996

3 1 9 / 1 9 9 6

Road Traffic

Act.

/961

(Section

103)

(Offences)

Regulations,

1996

3 3 3 / 1 9 9 6

Criminal

Justice

Act.

1994

(Commencement)

Order,

1996.

B r i n gs P a rt V (ss 3 3

to 3 7 -

Drug

Trafficking

Offences

at Sea)

a n d Part

V II (ss. 4 6 to 5 6 -

International

Co-operation)

of t he A ct a n d t he first a n d

s e c o n d s c h e d u l es i n to

o p e r a t i on on 15/1 1/96.

John Maher

continued

from page 369

put e v e r y b o dy w h o met h i m c o m p l e t e ly

at e a s e.

J o h n M a h e r u n q u e s t i o n a b ly w a s the

finest g e n t l e m an of the s o l i c i t o r s'

p r o f e s s i on d u r i ng his era w h i ch

e f f e c t i v e ly s p a n n ed t w o g e n e r a t i o n s.

T h e m a n n er in w h i ch he c o n d u c t ed

h i m s e lf b o th in his p r o f e s s i o n al a nd

p e r s o n al life h as set a s t a n d a rd to w h i ch

w e all s h o u ld a s p i re but w h i ch very f ew

of us are e v er likely to a c h i e v e.

W e e x t e nd o u r s i n c e re s y m p a t hy to his

b e l o v ed a nd d e v o t ed w i f e Pat a nd his

t w o s o ns S t e p h en a nd D a n, b o th

solicitors, n o w f o l l o w i ng in the

f o o t s t e ps of their illustrious a nd m u c h -

l o v ed f a t h e r.

Ni bheidh a leithéad ann aris.

New policy

director at

English

Law Society

T h e n e w D i r e c t or of P o l i cy at t he

L a w S o c i e ty of E n g l a n d a n d

W a l e s h a s b e e n n a m e d as R u s s e ll

W a l l m a n , f o r m e r ly t he S o c i e t y ' s

H e a d of P r o f e s s i o n al P o l i c y.

A s D i r e c t or of P o l i c y, W a l l m a n

w i ll m a n a g e t h e f o r m u l a t i on

a n d a n a l y s is of l e g al p o l i cy

a n d a l s o l e ad t he S o c i e t y ' s

c o n t a c t w i t h s e n i or o f f i c i a ls at t he

L o r d C h a n c e l l o r 's D e p a r t m e nt

a n d o t h e r G o v e r n m e n t

d e p a r t m e n t s.

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