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N
ational
M
oney
I
ncome
. I
ncome
of
certain
GROUPS IN
1938,
AND INCOMES OF SOME GROUPS
IN
I949.
Agricultural profits, wages
Increased over 1938
and salaries
............... by 175% in 1949
■Non Agricultural
Profits o f public and private
companies...
............... „ 175% „ „
Wages, salaries and pensions ,,1 2 5 %
„ „
Other profits, professional
earnings etc.
................ „ 60% „ „
to ta l national money Income
... „ 12 3% ,, ,,
(?)
Civil Service Salaries. The following table
compiled from the estimates for the public
services shows the increases in the salaries of
higher Civil Servants between 1939 and 1952.
C
iv il
S
erv ic e
S
alaries
I
ncreases
.
Secretary
Assistant Secretary ...
Principal Officer
Assistant Principal, Scale 1
Assistant Principal, Scale 2
1 93 9
: 9 4 7
1 9 5 1
I I I
1,419 1,880 2,324
1,220 1,635 1,969
1,009 1,375 1,609
900 1,240 1,431
789 1,100 1,249
The salaries o f higher Civil Servants have been
twice increased since 1939 as shown above. The
average remuneration, excluding child allowances,
for the four highest grades now stands at 60% over
1939. Bearing in mind that the Civil Service is a
permanent, pensionable, and risk free occupation
this increase in remuneration compares very favour
ably with that o f a solicitor who must not only
face an ever increasing bill for office expenses, but
has to make provision for loss o f earnings through
illness and has no retiring pension.
5. (i) Item charges in detailed bills for work in
respect o f registered land other than sales and
purchases.
(ii) Rule 1 1 , S.R.G.O. 1884 affecting Solicitors’
costs where registered land is acquired under
the exercise or threat o f compulsory powers.
(iii) Solicitors’ costs on a lease o f registered land
at a rack rent.
Rule 241 (2) o f the Land Registration Rules 1937
provides that the remuneration o f a solicitor for
conveyancing and other business with registered
property shall be regulated by the Order o f 1884
as modified by the Land Registration Rules. By
Rule 241 (1) the expression “ the Order o f 1884 ”
means the General Order dated 16th April, 1884,
made pursuant to the Solicitors’ Remuneration
Act, 1881, as varied by the General Orders under
the said Act dated 17th May, 1920 and 15th Novem
ber, 1920, “ or any Order hereafter to be made
thereunder.”
By the Solicitors’ Remuneration
General Order, 1951, made on n th December, 1951,
the following provisions were made. They apply
both to registered and “ unregistered ” land in
accordance with the definition given in Rule 241
(1) L .R .R ., 1937. It is however thought convenient
that provisions affecting the costs relating to
registered land should be included in the Land
Registration Rules and it is suggested that the
Committee should now pass further rules dealing
with the undermentioned matters in the terms of
the Solicitors’ Remuneration General Order, 1951.
The following were the changes which were
effected by the Solicitors’ Remuneration General
Order, 1951 :—
(i) An increase of 55% over the prewar charges
was authorised in detailed bills o f cost not covered
by the commission scale fees, in substitution for any
increases already allowed between 1939 and the
present time. The increase at present in force under
the Land Registration Rules is 33^% over prewar.
(ii) Rule 1 1 , S.R.G.O., 1884, was rescinded. The
effect o f this rule was that where land was taken
by a public authority under the actual or threatened
exercise o f compulsory powers, the costs o f the
solicitor for the acquiring authority and the owner
could not be charged in accordance with the com
mission scale in any case. This resulted in an unjust
ifiable reduction in solicitors’ costs in some cases.
Following the decision o f the Supreme Court in
Lanigan against Carlow Mental Hospital, not yet
reported, the Committee under the S. R. Act, 1881,
were convinced that Rule 11 could not be justified
and it has been rescinded.
(iii) Costs o f a lease at a rack rent. The effect
of the wording in the first scale in Schedule 1,
Part 2, S.R.G.O., 1884, which as amended applies
equally to registered land, is that the costs where
the rent includes a broken part o f £100 were assessed
on the nearest lowest denomination o f £100 , e.g.,
on a rent of £275, the costs would be assessed on
£200 only. This has been amended to provide
that the commission is to be calculated on the actual
amount o f the rent in the lease.
I am to ask that you will summon a meeting of
the Land Registration Rules Committee to consider
this matter.
Six copies o f this letter are enclosed for conven-
inece.
Yours faithfully,
E
ric
A.
P
lunkett
,
Secretary.
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