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GAZETTE
APRIL 1994
"The Shop
Noel Dempsey TD, Minister of State at the Office of Public Works and Government Chief Whip; Tom
O'Donoghue, Manager, Government Sales Office and Tom Costello, Controller, Government Supplies
Agency, at the official opening of the newly-refurbished Government Publications Sales Office.
Readers may like to know that the
office has appointed a Customer
Liaison Officer since the beginning of
1994 to deal with demands, or indeed
complaints, on a personal basis.
The Companies Acts 1963-1990
and
relevant Statutory Instruments are now
available on computer disc through "a
windows" interface. The disc has been
published by the Institute of Chartered
Accountants in Ireland and developed
by PAS Limited. The legislation comes
with an index and a full-search facility.
Users can review the sections of the
Acts they require on screen and have
those sections printed out.
The disc includes the current text of
legislation as at January 1, 1994.
Updates are available annually or
quarterly at the discretion of the user.
The system costs £199 plus VAT with
annual updates at 25% of the cost price.
There is also a network version
available at £750 plus VAT.
Further information can be obtained by
contacting PAS Limited at 01-661
3742, 13 Herbert Street, Dublin 2.
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Company Legislation on
Computer Disc
"The shop" is the colloquial title for the
retail outlet for Government
publications at Molesworth Street,
Dublin 2. Mr.
Noel Dempsey
TD,
Government Chief Whip and Minister
of State at the Office of Public Works
officially opened the newly-refurbished
Government Publications Sales Office,
"the shop", on March 10, 1994.
Most readers of the
Gazette
will be
familiar with the shop. Apart from Irish
Government publications, the shop sells
publications for the European Union,
World Health Organisation, UNESCO
and many other international
organisations. Close links are also
maintained with the Government
Publications Offices in London and
Belfast and many of their publications
are on display in the Dublin shop.
The Minister stated that the shop uses
modern technology. There were in
excess of 20,000 titles on database at
present and he expected this to reach
40,000 within the next twelve months.
The Minister stated that it was intended
to have public access to the database
on a touch-screen basis by the end of
the year. A pilot study was also being
undertaken with a view to providing
access to all legislation on CD-ROM.
The prototype being developed
related to health and safety legislation
and the initial responses were
promising.
A p p r e n t i ce S a l a r i es
Practitioners and their apprentices are
informed of a resolution passed by the
Council of the Society as follows:-
"From 1 January 1994 the minimum
recommended salaries payable to
solicitors' apprentices who have entered
the offices of their masters following
completion of the Professional Course
shall be as follows:-
• £115.00 (gross) per week for the first
six months.
• £125.00 (gross) per week for the next
six months.
• £135.00 (gross) per week for the final
period before the apprentice returns to
the Society's Law School for the
Advanced Course."
The Council appreciates that where an
office is paying the apprentice's course
fee, this recommendation may have to
be modified.
The Council suggests as a guideline
that apprentices be paid not less than
£95.50 a week during their attendance
in the office before embarking on the
Professional Course.
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