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Appendix B—Outline of Society's Course of Study
First Year
(a) Revenue Law—including instruction in handling
taxation matters.
(b) (i) Law of and practical instruction in Convey-
ancing e.g. Investigation of Titles, Purchase of
Lands, Landlord and Te n a n t, Mortgages and buil-
ding of houses.
(ii) Wills and Administration of Estates—the draw-
ing of Wills and Codicils, the winding-up of
Estates and the administration of Trusts.
(c) Business Law.
(i) Instruction on Company Formation and Part-
nership Agreements and respective advantages of
each.
(ii) Outlines of Bankruptcy and Liquidation.
(iii) Financial aspects of Company Law. Instruc-
tion in the interpretation of balance sheets,
accounts generally and financing of companies,
including the operations of the Stock Exchange.
General commercial knowledge.
(d) Family Law—Practice and Procedure.
T h e practical aspects of family work, e.g. property
rights, infants, matrimonial problems, legal aid
arrangements (as and when they operate).
(e) Administrative Law—Practice and Procedure.
T h e practical aspects of Local Government Law,
including Town Planning, Administrative Tribu-
nals under the Social Welfare Acts, the La nd Com-
mission and Land Acts.
(f) Criminal and Civil Litigation.
(i) Practice and procedure of Criminal Courts,
(ii) Practical instruction in the preparation of a pro-
secution case and the case for the defence, including
instruction in the drawing of briefs and writing of
opinions.
(iii) Practice and procedure in the Superior and
Inferior Civil Courts.
(iv) Practical instruction in the drawing of plead-
ings, preparation of cases for advice and opinions.
(v) An advocacy course in both civil and criminal
proceedings.
(g) Ethics and Professional Conduct—probably based
on the revised edition (now in preparation) of Sir
Thomas Lund's book
A Guide to
Professional
Conduct
and Etiquette
adapted for Irish condi-
tions.
Final three to four months after eighteen months in
master's
office
(a) Office administration—including staff assessment,
management and training, filing procedure, office
systems, etc.
(b) Cost drawing (including time costing, computer
application to office practice).
MINIMUM OF ANY TWO OF THE FOLLOWING
(c) Conveyancing, Land Law, the Law of Landlord and
Te n a n t.
(d) Comp a ny Law.
(e) T a x Planning and Estate Du ty Planning.
(f) Financial Planning including Banking, Investment
and T ax advice.
(g) Consumer Law.
(h) Labour Law (including the Factories Acts, Social
Welfare Acts, the Labour Court, etc.).
(i) Criminal Law and Evidence,
(j) E.E.C. Law and Practice,
(k) Bankruptcy and Liquidation.
Note
—Under
the new arrangements an apprentice will
not be allowed to spend more than three months >
n
the town agent's office. The remainder of the twenty
one month period in an office
must
be spent in
master's office.
Published by the Stationery Office, Dublin. Price 5p-
REGISTRY OF DEEDS (FEES) ORDER, 1974
(S.I. No. 160 of 1974)
I, Patrick Cooney, Minister for Justice, in exercise
the powers conferred on me by section 35 of the Regi
st
jY
of Deeds (Ireland) Act, 1832, as adapted by
Registry of Deeds (Ireland) Act, 1832 (Adaptation
Order, 1956 (S.I. No. 281 of 1956), and section 9 o'
the Land Transfer (Ireland) Act, 1848, as adapted by
the Land Transfer (Ireland) Act, 1848 (Adaptation)
Order, 1956 (S.I. No. 280 of 1956), hereby order
follows :
1. This Or der may be cited as the Registry of Deeo
(Fes) Order, 1974.
2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937)'
applies to this Order.
3. This Or der shall come into operation on the 1st daY
of September 1974.
4. In lieu of the fees specified in the Schedule to tn<j
Registry of Deeds (Fees) Or d er 1970 (S.I. No. 23°
of 1970), the fees specified in the second column
0
the Schedule to this Or der shall be charged in m
e
Office of the Registrar of Deeds in respect of
items specibed in the first column of the Schedule
t0
this Order.
Fee
£4.0°
0.20
0.59
Item
(1) Registration of Memorials
Upon every memorial registered
(2) Certificates of Registration
For every special certificate of registration
(3) Common Search made by Office under a
Requisition
(a) Upon names
(i) or each different name for any period
not exceeding ten years
(ii) for each different name for every addi-
tional ten years or additional part of
^
ten years
Qyi
(b) Upon lands : The like fees for each
d e n o m i n a t '
0
^
or alias denomination of land commencing with
different initial letter.
(See also pa r ag r aph 7)
(4) Negative Search made by Office under a
Requisition
(a) Upon names
(i) for each different name for any period
q
not exceeding ten years
£i-
uu
(ii) for each different name for every addi-
n
tional year beyond ten
9-
1
(b) Upon lands : T h e like fees for each
d e n o m i n a t '
0
^
or alias denomination of land commencing \vith
different initial letter.
(See also paragraph 7)
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