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Vol. 47
No. 7
January
1954
THE GAZETTE
o f the
INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND
President
Vice-Presidents
Secretary
J
oseph
B
arrett
J
ohn
J. N
ash
E
ric
A . P
lunkett
J
ohn
R.
H
alpin
FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS
IMPORTANT
I
f
you have not already taken out and stamped a
Registrar’s certificate you should do so immediately.
The final date for stamping certificates in time will
be 5th February, 1954. A certificate which is not
duly stamped before this date must be produced
to the Society for noting within one month of
stamping. Failure to comply with the statutory
requirements o f stamping and, where necessary,
production o f stamped certificates will render them
ineffective for the purpose o f taxation of costs for
work done before compliance with the statutory
requirements.
MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL
ioth
D
ecember
,
1953. Mr. James R. Quirke and
later Mr. Joseph Barrett in the chair. Also present:
Messrs. John J. Nash, John R. Halpin, Sean O
hUadhaigh, Francis J. Lanigan, Nathaniel Lacy,
Joseph P. Tyrrell, John Maher, Peter E. O’Connell,
Thomas A. O’Reilly, Derrick M. Martin, Dermot P.
Shaw, Charles J. Downing, George G. Overend,
Ralph J. Walker, Cornelius J. Daly, John J. Sheil,
Patrick R. Boyd, Desmond J. Collins, Niall S.
Gaffney, Gerald J. O’Donnell, George A. Nolan,
Henry St. J. Blake, Arthur Cox, John Carrigan,
James J. O’Connor, Louis E. O’Dea, Patrick F.
O’Reilly, Desmond J. Mayne.
The following was among the business transacted :
Extraordinary Members o f the Council.
The following nominations were adopted
Incorporated Law Society o f Northern Ireland :—
Messrs. Brian McK. McGuigan, Frederick IT. Mullan,
George Murnaghan, Charles MacLaughlin, James
C. Taylor; Southern Law Association : Messrs.
John F. Foley, Edmund Hayes, John B. Jermyn,
Patrick J. Kavanagh, Barry M. O’Meara.
Stamp duties.
T
he
Council considered a report from a Committee
on correspondence with the Revenue Commissioners
dealing with the liability for stamp duty where
property is purchased by trustees for a charity or
religious community or where property is purchased
by diocesan trustees who hold it in trust for the
parishioners. In some cases difficulty has been
experienced in obtaining the certificate under section
13 of the Finance (No. 2) Act 1947 as it is impossible
to state with certainty that all the beneficiaries are
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