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REGISTRY OF DEEDS (FEES) ORDER, 1970
S.I. 238 of 1970
This order increasing fees in the Registry of
Deeds, comes into operation on 7 January 1971.
The fee upon every memorial registered after that
date will be £4, while the fee for a negative
search will be £1. The fee for an entry of certi
ficate of satisfaction of a judgment mortgage in
ordinary cases will be £1.
COMMITTEE ON
COURT PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
The ninth Interim Report of the Committee on
Court Practice and Procedure dealing with Proof
of Previous Convictions has made the following
recommendations :
The Committee unanimously recommended
that statutory provisions should be enacted to :
(1) enable the prosecution to be at liberty to
serve on the defendant in all indictable cases
(whether tried summarily or with a jury) in ad
vance of his trial a copy of his list of previous
convictions (certified to have been compiled from
the appropriate criminal records and signed by or
on behalf of the Commissioner of the Garda
Siochana) together with a notice to the effect that,
unless he serves notice of dispute within seven
days, the list will be offered in evidence in the
event of his conviction and will be admissible as
prima facie
proof of the convictions as therein
set out;
(2) enable the prosecution to be at liberty to
serve in advance of the hearing on the defendant
in proceedings in regard to such summary offences
as may from time to time be scheduled by statute
or statutory instrument by the Minister for Justice
a copy of his list of previous convictions in so far
as previous convictions of a similar nature are
concerned certified as previously together with a
notice to the like effect as that mentioned at (1)
above;
(3) to require that in the event of conviction of
an indictable offence, or a scheduled summary
offence, of any person who has had no previous
convictions of indictable offences or of scheduled
offences of a similar nature, a certificate to that
effect (signed by or on behalf of the Commissioner
of the Garda Siochana) should bef urnished by the
prosecution to the court before sentence or other
penalty is imposed;
(4) to enable the prosecution to be at liberty to
serve on the defendant, in a case where the proof
of a previous conviction
is
an essential proof for
the prosecution, a notice requesting him to make
for the purpose of the proceedings in question an
admission in writing of the fact and the particu
lars of the relevant conviction as set out in the.
notice and stating that such admission (if made)
will be offered in evidence at his trial;
(5) to make this admission in writing admissible
in evidence subject to the same conditions as
specified in Section 25 of the Criminal Justice
Bill, 1967, in regard to proof by formal admission;
(6) to require the Court Registrar or clerk of
any court dealing with an indictable offence,
either at first instance or on appeal, to furnish to
the Criminal Registry written notification of the
result of the case;
(7) to require the Court Registrar or clerk of
any court dealing with a summary offence, either
at first instance or on appeal, to furnish to the
sergeant-in-charge of the Garda Station concerned
written notification of the result of the case.
SOLICITORS ACT 1954 (FEES)
(AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1970
S.I. No. 245 of 1970
Members will please note that, under these
regulations, as from 22 October 1970 the fee pay
able by a solicitor on taking out a practising
certificate in Dublin city is raised from £11 to
£21, and the fee payable by a solicitor on taking
out a practising certificate elsewhere in the
Republic is raised from £8 to £18.
THE REGISTRY
REGISTRATION OF TITLE ACT, 1964
ISSUE OF NEW LAND CERTIFICATE
Applications have been received from the registered
owners mentioned in the schedule annexed hereto, for
the issue of Certificates of Title in substitution for the
original certificates issued in respect of the lands speci
fied in the said schedule, which original certificates, it is
alleged, have been lost or inadvertently destroyed.
A new certificate will be issued in each case, except a
case in respect of which notification is received in this
Registry within twenty-eight days from the publication
of this notice, that the Certificate of Title is still in
existence, and in the custody of some person other than
the registered owner. Any such notification should state
the grounds on which such certificate is being held.
Dated the 21st day of October 1970.
D. M. McALt,ISTER
Registrar of Titles.
Central Office, Land Registry, Chancery Street, Dublin.
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