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Vol.
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No. 6
December,
1955
THE GAZETTE
of the
INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND
President
DERMOT P. SHAW
Vict-Presidenls
RALPH J. WALKER
GEORGE G. OVEREND
Secritary
ERIC A. PLUNKETT
FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS
IMPORTANT
PRACTISING Certificates, 1956-57.
-(i) Members
are reminded that practising certificates for the
year to end 5th January, 1957, should be taken
out on or after 6th January, 1956, and not kter
than Saturday, 4th February, 1956, in order to
take effect as a qualification to practise from 6th
January.
(2) Under the provision of the Solicitors'
Act, 1954, the declaration to be lodged .with the
Society on applying for a practising certificate
shall be completed and signed by the applicant
personally unless the Registrar on the ground of
illness or some other sufficient ground dispenses
with personal signature of the declaration. Dublin
agents of country solicitors should therefore take
up the certificates in good time and forward them
for signature to their correspondents.
(3) A form
of directions in regard to applications for practising
certificates for the year 1956-57 will be issued to
each solicitor applying personally or by his Dublin
agent for a form of declaration.
THE
PRESIDENT
AND
VICE-
PRESIDENTS.
MR. Dermot P. Shaw of Mullingar has been elected
President of the Society for the coming year, and
Mr. Ralph J. Walker of Dublin and Mr. George
G. Overend of Dublin have been elected Vice-
Presidents.
SOLICITORS' ACT, 1954 (Appren
ticeship and Education) REGULA
TIONS, 1955
Copies of the Solicitors'Act, 1954 (Apprenticeship
and Education) Regulations, 1955 (S.I. No. 217 of
1955) which regulate the revised course of legal
education to be undertaken by solicitors apprentices,
will be on sale in due course at the Government
Publications Sale Office, The Arcade, Henry Street,
Dublin.
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