The Gazette 1944-46

Vol. 38 No. 9

March I94S

THE GAZETTE of tk e INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND

Vice-PrtsUcHts : WILLIAM S. HUGGARD HUGH P. O'DONNELL

PreiiJeHt : PATRICK F. o'sEILLT

Secretary:

ERIC

A.

PLUNKETT

FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS

MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL. FEBRUARY 2nd. The President in the chair. Present Mr. W. S. Huggard, Vice-President; Messrs. W. S. Hayes, W. J. Norman, S. 0 hUadh- aigh, D. O'Connell, F. J. W. Darley, J. R. Quirke, E. M. FitzGerald, C. G. Stapleton, G. A. Overend, P. R. Boyd, J. J. Dunne, W. L. Duggan, J. J. Bolger, H. St. J. Blake, Roger Greene, J. J. Smyth, J. Travers Wolfe, A. Cox, J. B. Hamill, H. P. Mayne, Peter O'Connor, J. Gillespic. The following were among the matters dealt with: Local Registration of Title (Ireland) Act, 1891, S. 87 (3). THE Council considered a report from a Com mittee on the practice adopted in the Land Registry of refusing to accept for registration a transfer from a personal representative to a bene ficiary under section 87 of the Act unless the personal representative has first been registered for the purpose of administration. The object of the Registry in adopting this practice is appar ently to ensure that fees will be collected at some

stage of the transaction. Having regard to the established principle whereby the personal rep resentatives can deal with lands without being themselves registered, and to section 87 (3), which enacts that no fee shall be payable on any transfer under the section by personal representatives to a person beneficially entitled to land, the Com mittee recommended that the Society should assist in having the question brought before the judge for his ruling. The report of the Committee THE Council considered a report from a Committee on a letter from the Department of Justice re questing their views on proposed legislation consolidating and amending the law relating to trustee investments, and as to any amendments generally in the law relating to trustees which might seem appropriate. The report of the Com mittee referred to the recent suggestion that a Law Reform Advisory Committee should be appointed to consider and report periodically on proposals to reform and consolidate the law, and stated that in its opinion the matters referred was adopted. Trustee Acts.

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