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Vol. 49
No. 4
August,
1955
THE GAZETTE
of the
INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND
President
THOMAS A. O'REILLY
Vice-Presidents
DESMOND J. MAYNE
JOHN J. SHEIL
Secretary
A. PLUNKETT
FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS
MEETING OF THE COUNCIL.
JUIT 2 IST: The President in the Chair.
Also
present Messrs Desmond J. Mayne and John J.
Shell, Vice Presidents, Henry St. J. Blake, Arthur
Cox, John Carrigan, Dermot P. Shaw, George G.
Overend, Terence de Vere White, Joseph P. Tyrrell,
George A. Nolan, Scan O'hUadhaigh, Patrick R.
Boyd, John R. Halpin, Francis X. Burke, John
Maher, Peter E. O'Connell, Reginald J. Nolan,
Ralph J. Walker, Cornelius J. Daly, Christopher
E. Callan, James J. O'Connor, Desmond J. Collins,
Patrick F. O'Reilly, Joseph Barrett.
The following was among the business transacted :
Legal Education.
A REPORT from the Court of Examiners on the
proposed new system of legal education under
the provisions of the Solicitors Act, 1954 was con
sidered and adopted and the matter was referred
back to draft the necessary regulations.
Retirement Benefits.
A COMMITTEE of the Council submitted a report
on the question of the liability for income tax in
respect of contributions by self employed solicitors
towards pensions to make provision for retirement
or old age. It was pointed out that the position of
self employed professional persons compares un
favourably with that of employed persons in this
respect as it is possible to obtain exemption from
income tax for contributions towards approved
schemes which make provision for pensions on
retirement or old age in the case of employed per
sons. The Committee recommended that proposals
should be submitted to the Government for exemp
tion from income tax of contributions towards
such schemes in the case of solicitors and other
professional men. Recommendations to this effect
have been made by the Millard Tucker committee
which was appointed to examine the position in
England. The Council decided that the Bar Council
and the representative bodies of the accountancy
profession should be invited to examine the position
with this Society and to draft proposals for sub
mission to the Government.
Solicitors in the Local Government service.
A DEPUTATION which was received by the Minister
for Local Government submitted a report stating
that the Minister had been requested to accord
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