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GAZETTE
SEPTEMBER 1981
Birth, Marriage and
Death Certificates
By reason of recent difficulties in procuring Certificates in
relation to Births, Marriages and Deaths, the Dublin
Solicitors' Bar Association has been in correspondence
with the General Register Office.
In correspondence with Mr. Andrew F. Smyth,
President of the Bar Association, it has been confirmed
that there has recently been a build-up of work due to the
large volume of correspondence and applications for
Certificates being handled by the office. The present
average waiting time appears to be approximately five
weeks.
The Registrar is taking steps in an endeavour to reduce
the waiting period and is confident that the situation is
gradually improving. It appears that applicants for
Certificates are informed of the likely delay and, if they
require their Certificates more quickly, are advised to
apply to the Superintendent Registrar's Offices for the
counties in which the events took place. These offices,
because they cater for events in their own counties only,
are not subject to the same pressures as the Dublin
offices.
It is pointed
out,
however,
that
local
Superintendent Registrars do not normally have custody
of non-Catholic Marriage records and, in such cases,
special arrangements are made for the issue of such
Certificates as quickly as possible from the General
Register Office.
The Superintendent Registrar's Office at Pearse Street,
Dublin has been endeavouring to provide Certificates
over the counter to all personal callers, but has been
having serious difficulty in coping with demand and in
accommodating the public in the office, while waiting.
Applicants are now being encouraged to leave their
applications and have Certificates sent on to them
through the post. By this means, the need for people to
wait for lengthy periods at the office has been reduced
and, because the office now closes earlier and the staff are
working overtime, all Certificates are now being issued
within a few days of the receipt of applications, whether
through the post or otherwise.
If an applicant to the General Register Office in Dublin
has a really pressing need for a Marriage Certificate as,
for example, in the completion of the sale of a house,
then, upon this fact being explained to the General
Register Office, every effort will be made to issue the
Certificate in the minimum possible time. •
Land Registry —
Solicitors Certificate as to Title
The Land Registry Rules 1 9 72 (Rules 19 and 35) provide
for First Registration of property and Discharge of
Equities on foot of a Solicitors Certificate as to Title when
on a sale (or an acquisition by a Statutory Authority) the
purchase money (or compensation) does not exceed
£ 2 5 , 0 0 0. The Land Registration Rules, 1981 have
extended this limit to £ 5 0 , 0 0 0 as and from the 4th day of
August 1981.
Conveyancing Note
10% Deposit on Execution of Contract
In recent years the practice has developed that Vendors
accept deposits of 10% on the execution of Contracts for
the sale of property by private treaty.
As most Purchasers are dependent on 9 0% loans to
enable
them
to
complete
their
purchases,
the
Conveyancing Committee of the Law Society recommend
that this should become standard practice, except in
exceptional circumstances, such as where there is a long
closing date or a Purchase in trust for an undisclosed
principal or the purchase price is small.
Comment
(Continued from p. 155)
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Section 4 has its proper place in our local government
structure to ensure that their certain decision-making
powers are retained by the elected members, in order to
provide some alternative to bureaucratic decision-making.
An Bord Pleanala already provides this alternative in the
case of planning decisions. There is a clear case for the
introduction of legislation to remove planning decisions
from the scope of Section 4 of the City and County
Management Act, 1 9 5 5 .D
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