654 / 822
Vol. 40
No.
7
January,
1947
THE GAZETTE
of the
INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND
President :
H. ST. J. BLAKE
yice-PresiJents :
WILLIAM L. DUGGAN
JOHN J. BOLGER
Secretary :
ERIC A. PLUN'KETT
FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS
IMPORTANT
MEMBERS
are
reminded
that annual certificates
should be taken out and duty paid thereon not
later than 5th February, 1947. A certificate stamped
after February 5th must be produced to the Society
within one month after date of stamping.
If not
so produced within the said period the certificate
will take effect as a qualification to practise only
from the date when it is produced.
MEETINGS OF COUNCIL
NOVEMBER z6th. The President in the chair. Also
present: Messrs. Roger Greene, H. P. Mayne,
P. R. Boyd, A. S. Merrick, Hugh O'Donnell,
T. A. O'Reilly, Scan 6 hUadhaigh, W. J. Norman,
J. Travers Wolfe, D. P. Shaw, Joseph P. Tyrrell,
J. J. Smith, H. St. J. Blake, P. F. O'Reilly, J. B.
Hamill, J. J. Lynch, G. A. Overend, J. Barrett,
J. Gillespie, J. J. Bolger, J. P. Carrigan, Arthur
Cox, J. R. Quirke.
The following was among the business transacted :
Apprentices' Fees
THE Secretary
reported
that
the Committee
mentioned in Section 57 of the Solicitors (Ireland)
Act, 1898, as amended by the Solicitors (Ireland)
Act, 1898, Adaptation Order, 1946, had made a
regulation increasing the fees payable by apprentices
and intending apprentices to the Society, and that
the new regulation, which would not affect persons
already bound under
indentures or who had
petitoned to be so bound, would take effect as from
2nd December, 1946.
Estate Duty Office
THE
Secretary
read
correspondence with
the
Controller of Death Duties in which the latter had
agreed that in cases where the Commissioner of
Valuation raises no question on the value of pro–
perty as returned for death duty purposes, the
solicitors
for
the personal
representatives will
be notified
thereof. As forms will have
to be
printed for this purpose, the Controller stated that
some interval will elapse before the new practice
could be brought into operation.
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