692 / 736
Lease map.
Indemnities as to roads and services.
Certificate under Section 72 of the Registration
of Title Act 1964.
In the opinion of the Council the charges in
respect of these items should properly be borne
by the lessor or vendor.
The Council disapprove of the imposition on
the lessee or purchaser by the solicitor for the
lessor or vendor of charges for postage and petty
outlay.
2.
The Council
recommend
the
following
basis of charging the first lessee or purchaser of
a new house including cases in which the trans
action is carried out by way of building agreement
and agreement for lease, and regardless of whether
the lessor's or vendor's title is registered or un
registered :
In the case of houses costing not less
than £5,000 and not more than £10,000 a charge
of
2% where
there
is
a mortgage
con
temporaneous with the mortgage and a charge
of
\-\%
where
there
is no contemporaneous
mortgage.
Where the purchase price is less than £5,000
a charge of not more than £80 should be made.
No recommendation is made in respect of trans
actions for more than £10,000.
The recommended charges are exclusive of dis
bursements.
Recommended fee
Purchase Price
Purchase
Purchase with
without mortgage
contemporaneous
mortgage
£5,000
£75
£100
£6,000
£90
£120
£7,000
£105
£140
£8,000
£120
£160
£9,000
£135
£180
£10,000
£150
£200
Over £10,000
— No recommendation —
Where the prices does not exceed £5,000, the
fee should not exceed £80 in any case.
3.
The Council are of the opinion that the
costs of a vendor lessor or builder of a new house
should not be charged
to
lessee purchaser or
employee.
MARRIAGE AND CHILDREN'S
ALLOWANCE TO PROFESSIONAL
STAFF
IN SEMI-STATE
BODIES
A point which is of considerable interest to
professional workers arose in a recent dispute
before the Labour Court between the professional
staff employed by
the Institute for Industrial
Research and Standards and the Institute claim
ing parity with their opposite numbers in the
Agricultural Institute. It was stated that the entry
qualifications for employees in both Institutes are
identical i.e. an honours degree and a professional
qualification or its equivalent. In Ocober, 1966,
professional employees in the Institute of Indus
trial Research and Standards were conceded parity
in pay scales with their opposite numbers in the
Agricultural Institute, but at that time they failed
to obtain marriage and children's allowances. It
appears that the Agricultural Institute is the only
semi-State body which follows the civil service
rule of paying such allowances in addition to basic
salary. The point at issue in the recent reference
was the claim of the professional personnel in the
I.l.R.S. to marriage and children's allowances.
It was stated that the claim, if conceded, would
have to be extended to a total of about 275 pro
fessional, technical and clerical staff, which could
not be supported by the Institute because of its
limited resources. Marriage and children's allow
ances in the State service originated in 1926 when,
as an economy measure, single persons were
offered a lower salary in return for a higher
salary when they would get married. At that time
what are known as
the administrative grades
accepted the proposal; the professional grades did
not. This picture has continued to the present
day, and such persons as engineers, chemists,
technical staff, and presumably lawyers, do not
get marriage and children's allowances. On the
other hand there are the farcical positions that an
accountant who has come up through the service
does get marriage and children's allowances, while
the person employed directly as a costs accoun
tant does not. There is, therefore, the clear picture
in the civil service that marriage and children's
allowances through a historical reason are paid
to the administrative but not to the professional
E.A.P.
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