The Gazette 1964/67

Government Publications Sales Office, G.P.O. Arcade, Dublin 1, price 6d. PROGRAM IN AMERICAN LAW The Board of Directors of the Leyden- Amsterdam-Columbia Universities have arranged to provide a general introduction to the American legal system with emphasis on areas of particular interest to European lawyers. The school lasts from 27th June to 22nd July, 1966. The Secretary of the Incorporated Law Society has a copy of the prospectus which may be inspected at the office on request. Those interested should apply for further details to: Professor R. Feenstra, Executive Director of Summer Program, Faculty of Law, University of Leyden, "Gravensteen", Pieter- skerkhof, 6, Leyden, The Netherlands. Please note applications for admission should be submitted before 29th March 1966. COMPULSORY PURCHASE AREA Members practising in the Dublin area ought to be aware of the procedure adopted by the Local Authority in acquiring premises by compulsory purchase order. The acquiring Authority on compulsory acqui sition are obliged to pay compensation for the disturbance and expense of the vendor as the result of the threat of compulsory acquisition in addition to paying his costs of deducing title. The costs of negotiating prices and valuer's fees are included in the disturbance costs. This does not arise in the case of voluntary sale for the vendor offers the property for his own con venience. Where the property is offered to the Corporation the vendor's rights depend entirely on the contract and if he fails to provide it the Corporation pay his solicitor's costs and valuer's fees he will recover nothing except the agreed price. CRIMINAL INJURIES COMPENSATION BOARD On 3rd August 1965 the Home Secretary, in a written answer said ithat there were a few appli cations for compensation, e.g. where it was a question of the victim's responsibility for the cir cumstances leading to the injury, which can be dealt with only by a hearing attended by the applicant. At present the initial decision on an application is taken, without a hearing, by a single member of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board, and the case comes to a hearing before three other 90

been made available by the Registrar of Titles. The following burdens affect registered lands without registration: (1) The burdens set out in Section 47 of the Registration of Title Act 1891; (2) Estate duty—Finance Act 1894, section 8 (2); (3) The powers and rights incident to mining purposes, not created by express grant or reservation after the first registration of the lands—Registration of Title Act 1891, section 48 (2); (4) The rights and equities arising from the interest of a tenant purchaser under the Land Purchase Acts being deemed to be a graft on his previous interest in the land, so long as there is a note of the existence of such rights in the register—Registration of Title Act 1891, section 29 (3) (4); (5) The provisions of any Act by which the alienation, assignment, sub-division or sub letting of land is prohibited or restricted e.g. Registration of Title Act 1891, section 38 (1); (6) The burdens set out in section 16 of the Registration of Title Act 1942; (7) The burdens set out in section 19 (5) and 21 (3) of the Labourers Act 1936; (8) The burdens set out in section 72 of the Registration of Title Act 1964, not yet in operation. The attention of members is also drawn to the Land Reclamation Act 1949, section 3, rub-section 7. Members should also bear in mind the pro visions of Rule 161 of the Land Registration Rules 1959 (96 of 1959). No solicitor should rely on the Land Certificate for the purposes of ascer taining what is registered on a folio. A copy folio of the register written up-to-date should be re quired. It will be observed from Rule 161, such matters as judgment, mortgages, cautions, inhi bitions, lites pendentes, etc., are registered on a folio without production of the Land Certificate. LAND BOND ORDER, 1966 The main purpose of this Order (S.I. No. 18 of 1966) is to fix the rate of interest (7 per cent) on bonds payable in respect of lands acquired by the Land Commission, where the purchase prices are agreed or fixed or deemed to be fixed between 1st January 1966 and 31st December 1966. The Order also prescribes the redemption arrangements specifying a sinking fund rate of \ per cent and an annuity rate of 1\ per cent to provide therefor. The Statutory Instrument is available from