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STATUTORY INSTRUMENT
S.I. No. 66 of 1975
SOLICITORS' ACTS, 1954 and 1960 (APPRENTICE-
SHIP AND EDUCATION) REGULATIONS, 1975
The Incorporated Law Society of Ireland in
cxercisc of the powers conferred on them by Sections
4, 5, 25 and 40 of the Solicitors' Act, 1954, and of
every other power thereunto enabling them hereby
make the following Regulations:—
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Solicitors'
Acts, 1954 and 1960 (Apprenticeship and Education)
Regulations, 1975, and shall be read with the Regula-
tions cited in the Schedule hereto.
2. Subject to the transitional arrangements in
Regulation 32 hereof, these Regulations shall come
into operation on 1st October, 1975, and shall in so
far as they are inconsistent with the Regulations cited
in the Schedule hereto be deemed to amend such
Regulations on from that date.
3. In these Regulations the expression
"the Act" means the Solicitors' Act 1954;
"the Society" means The Incorporated Law
Society of Ireland;
"the Council" means the Council of the
Society;
"the Committee" means the Education Com-
mittee appointed under Regulation 5;
"the Registrar" means the Registrar for the
time being of the Society;
"an apprentice" means a person whose name
has been entered i n, the Register of
Apprentices;
"recognised university" means any of the
universities of Ireland, England, Scotland or
Wales;
"the Preliminary Examination" and "the Final
Examination" have the meanings assigned to
them in these Regulations;
"prescribed form" means the form or forms
adopted by the Committee from time to time
for use in complying with these Regulations.
Other expressions ^ used in these Regulations shall
have the same meanings as they have in the Act
unless such meaning is inconsistent with the context
in which they are used.
4. The Interpretation Act, 1937 shall apply for the
purpose of the interpretation of the Regulations as it
applies for the purpose of the interpretation of an
Act of the Oireachtas, except in so far as it may be
inconsistent with the Act or these Regulations.
EDUCATION COMMITTEE
Constitution
5. (i) At the first meeting of the Council to be
held after the Annual General Meeting of the
Society each year the Council shall appoint an Educa-
tion Committee in these Regulations called "the
Committee", consisting of nine members including
the President,
the Senior Vice-President
and
immediate past President respectively of the Society
and six members of the Council.
Tenure of Office
(ii) The members of the Committee shall take
office immediately upon appointment and shall hold
office until the appointment of their successors. Out-
going members shall be eligible for re-appointment.
Three members of the Committee shall form a
quorum.
Vacancies
(iii) A vacancy arising on the Committee may be
filled by the Council at any time and a member
appointed to fill the vacancy shall hold officc until the
next meeting of the Council at which the Committee
shall be appointed.
Powers and Duties
6. The Committee shall have such powers and
duties, in addition to those conferred or imposed
upon it by these Regulations, as may be delegated to
it by the Council from lime to time.
7. The Committee shall prescribe the courses of
study to be followed by apprentices and lay down
the standards to be attained at the Society's exajnina-
tions. The Committee shall also consider and
adudicate upon the reports of the Examiners.
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
8. (i) For the better discharge of its duties, the
Committee shall at its first meeting after its appoint-
ment appoint an advisory committee in these Regula-
tions called "The Advisory Committee" comprising
not more than nine persons of whom not more than
five shall be members of either the Committee or the
Council and of whom at least one may be an
Examiner.
(ii) A vacancy arising on the Advisory Committee
may be filled by the Committee at any time and a
person appointed to fill a vacancy shall hold office as
a member of the Advisory Committee until the next
meeting of the Committee at which an Advisory
Committee may be appointed under these Regulations.
Lecturers and Examiners
9. The Committee may appoint such persons as it
may see fit to be lecturers or examiners or both to the
Society upon such terms and conditions and with such
remuneration as the Council may approve, and the
Committee may at any time remove any person so
appointed.
APPRENTICESHIP
Conditions to be satisfied before Apprenticeship
10. (i) No person shall enter into Indentures of
Apprenticeship unless he:—
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