The Gazette 1975

STATUTORY INSTRUMENT

Committee", consisting of nine members including the President, the Senior Vice-President and immediate past President respectively of the Society and six members of the Council. Tenure of Office (ii) The members of the Committee shall take office immediately upon appointment and shall hold office until the appointment of their successors. Out- going members shall be eligible for re-appointment. Three members of the Committee shall form a quorum. Vacancies (iii) A vacancy arising on the Committee may be filled by the Council at any time and a member appointed to fill the vacancy shall hold officc until the next meeting of the Council at which the Committee 6. The Committee shall have such powers and duties, in addition to those conferred or imposed upon it by these Regulations, as may be delegated to it by the Council from lime to time. 7. The Committee shall prescribe the courses of study to be followed by apprentices and lay down the standards to be attained at the Society's exajnina- tions. The Committee shall also consider and adudicate upon the reports of the Examiners. 8. (i) For the better discharge of its duties, the Committee shall at its first meeting after its appoint- ment appoint an advisory committee in these Regula- tions called "The Advisory Committee" comprising not more than nine persons of whom not more than five shall be members of either the Committee or the Council and of whom at least one may be an Examiner. (ii) A vacancy arising on the Advisory Committee may be filled by the Committee at any time and a person appointed to fill a vacancy shall hold office as a member of the Advisory Committee until the next meeting of the Committee at which an Advisory Committee may be appointed under these Regulations. Lecturers and Examiners 9. The Committee may appoint such persons as it may see fit to be lecturers or examiners or both to the Society upon such terms and conditions and with such remuneration as the Council may approve, and the Committee may at any time remove any person so appointed. APPRENTICESHIP Conditions to be satisfied before Apprenticeship 10. (i) No person shall enter into Indentures of Apprenticeship unless he:— 98 ADVISORY COMMITTEE shall be appointed. Powers and Duties

S.I. No. 66 of 1975

SOLICITORS' ACTS, 1954 and 1960 (APPRENTICE- SHIP AND EDUCATION) REGULATIONS, 1975 The Incorporated Law Society of Ireland in cxercisc of the powers conferred on them by Sections 4, 5, 25 and 40 of the Solicitors' Act, 1954, and of every other power thereunto enabling them hereby make the following Regulations:— 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Solicitors' Acts, 1954 and 1960 (Apprenticeship and Education) Regulations, 1975, and shall be read with the Regula- tions cited in the Schedule hereto. 2. Subject to the transitional arrangements in Regulation 32 hereof, these Regulations shall come into operation on 1st October, 1975, and shall in so far as they are inconsistent with the Regulations cited in the Schedule hereto be deemed to amend such Regulations on from that date. 3. In these Regulations the expression "the Act" means the Solicitors' Act 1954; "the Society" means The Incorporated Law Society of Ireland; "the Council" means the Council of the Society; "the Committee" means the Education Com- mittee appointed under Regulation 5; "the Registrar" means the Registrar for the time being of the Society; "an apprentice" means a person whose name has been entered i n, the Register of Apprentices; "recognised university" means any of the universities of Ireland, England, Scotland or Wales; "the Preliminary Examination" and "the Final Examination" have the meanings assigned to them in these Regulations; "prescribed form" means the form or forms adopted by the Committee from time to time for use in complying with these Regulations. Other expressions ^ used in these Regulations shall have the same meanings as they have in the Act unless such meaning is inconsistent with the context in which they are used. 4. The Interpretation Act, 1937 shall apply for the purpose of the interpretation of the Regulations as it applies for the purpose of the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas, except in so far as it may be inconsistent with the Act or these Regulations.

EDUCATION COMMITTEE

Constitution 5. (i) At the first meeting of the Council to be held after the Annual General Meeting of the Society each year the Council shall appoint an Educa- tion Committee in these Regulations called "the