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distribution. Papers unavailable for early circulation
may be secured in Oslo.
INTERNATIONAL BAR NEWS.
A new issue of the
International Ear News,
giving
complete information concerning the Oslo Con
ference will be published early in 1956. Copies of
this publication will be available upon request at the
office of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland,
or from the Host Organization, or from Head
quarters of the I.B.A., 501 Fifth Avenue, New-
York 17.
MOTOR INSURERS' BUREAU OF
IRELAND.
THE text of an agreement dated 30th November,
1955, between the Ministry of Local Government
and The Motor Insurer's Bureau of Ireland, pro
viding for a scheme of compensation for victims
of uninsured motorists, together with some notes
on its scope and purpose was recently published
(see July, 1955, GAZETTE, page 23), and can be
obtained from the Government Publications Office
—price 6d, or
j^d.
including postage.
LEGAL APPOINTMENTS.
MR. HENRY MURRAY, Solicitor, Carrick-on-Shannon,
Co. Leitrim, has been appointed solicitor to the
Dublin Port and Docks Board.
Mr. James F. Kenny, Solicitor, Dungarvan, Co.
Waterford, has been appointed County Registrar
for County Waterford.
EXCHANGE CONTROL ACT, 1954.
Note
for the guidance of solicitors.
THE Department of Finance has issued a note for
the guidance of solicitors
in connection with
dealings under Exchange Control in British and
Irish Securities. It will be recalled in this connection
that Solicitors as well as Bankers and Stockbrokers
are " Approved Agents " in Ireland and " Authorised
Depositaries " in Britain.
The conditions under
which these dealings can be effected are fully set
out in the leaflet.
These conditions refer in par
ticular to the following matters :—
1. Subscriptions to new issues.
2. Sales and transfers.
3. Purchases and acceptances of transfers.
The following matters are also dealt with :—
1. Approved manners of payment.
2. Lodgments to blocked account.
3. Import and export of Securities.
4. Presentation of documents to registrars.
5. Applications for exchange control permission.
All further information is set out in Notice 1C
No. 77, which together with this leaflet can be
obtained on application to the Secretary, Depart
ment of Finance, Merrion Street, Dublin.
WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION
(AMENDMENT) ACT, 1955.
THE Workmen's Compensation (Amendment) Act,
1955, came into force on ist September, 1955, and
introduced some modifications to the existing law
on the subject. By Section 3, a workman entitled
to a weekly payment by way of compensation under
the Acts of 1897, 1900 and 1906, shall also be
entitled to a supplementary allowance equal to
four-fifths of the weekly payment;
this supple
mentary allowance shall be deemed to be part of
the weekly payment.
By Section 4 the weekly
payment provided for by the third schedule of the
Act of 1934 is raised from 5o/- to 9o/— per week.
By Section 5, the rules for computation of com
pensation in fatal cases previously regulated by the
Second Schedule of the Act of 1934 as amended by
Section 8 of the Act of 1953, are to be calculated
now with the revised figures set out in the First
Schedule to this Act.
It is to be noted that the
dependants' lump sum has now been raised to £1,800
and that in other respects the Second Schedule of
the Act of 1934 is henceforth to be read in con
junction with the figures set out
in
the First
Schedule of the Act of 195 5. By Section 6, the age
limit for juvenile dependency is raised from fifteen
years to sixteen years. Section 7, amends Section 23
of the 1934 Act which used to provide that where
the incapacity of the workman lasted less than
four weeks, the first three days of such incapacity
would be excluded from the period of the weekly
payment; this period of four weeks has now been
reduced to two weeks.
By Section 8, if a weekly payment in a case of
total incapacity has been continued for not less
than two years, the Circuit Court on the application
of the workman made at any time after he has
attained the age of 21 years, if it is satisfied that the
workman will remain totally incapacitated, may by
order provide for the payment by the employer,
by way of redemption as from the date of the
application of his liability to make the weekly
payment, of a lump sum of such amount as may be
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