LegalizeS.I. No. 349/1995 - Solicitors (Practising Certificates 1996) Regulations, 1995
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1 amending act · 1996-12-18, S.I. No. 401/1996 - Solicitors (Practising Certificate 1997) Regulations, 1996
S.I. No. 349 of 1995.
SOLICITORS (PRACTISING CERTIFICATES 1996) REGULATIONS, 1995.
The Law Society of Ireland, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by Section 47 (as substituted by Section 54 of the Solicitors (Amendment) Act, 1994 ) of the Solicitors Act, 1954 hereby make the following Regulations:
1.
( a ) These Regulations may be cited as the Solicitors (Practising Certificate 1996) Regulations, 1995.
( b ) These Regulations shall come into operation on the 19th day of December, 1995.
2.
( a ) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:
"applicant solicitor" means the solicitor the subject matter of an application delivered to the Registrar;
"application" means the form of application for a practising certificate 1996 set out in the Schedule to these Regulations purporting to be duly completed and signed by an applicant solicitor personally;
"Registrar" means the registrar of solicitors appointed pursuant to section 8 of the Solicitors Act, 1954 .
"Compensation Fund Committee" means the committee to whom functions of the Society pursuant to Part V of the Solicitors Act, 1954 , as amended and extended by Part VI of the Solicitors (Amendment) Act, 1994 , have been delegated by the Council.
( b ) Other words and phrases in these Regulations shall have the meanings assigned to them by the Solicitors Acts, 1954 to 1994.
( c ) The Interpretation Act, 1937 applies to the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.
3.
A solicitor applying for a practising certificate for the practice year commencing 1st January 1996 and ending 31st December 1996, or a solicitor to whom Section 56 (3) of the Solicitors (Amendment) Act, 1994 applies, shall, in person or by his agent, deliver to the Registrar an application which—
( a ) shall be in the form set out in the Schedule to these Regulations;
( b ) shall be duly completed and signed by the applicant solicitor personally.
4.
( a ) The Registrar at any time following delivery to him of an application pursuant to Regulation 3 of these Regulations (whether or not a practising certificate has been issued to the applicant solicitor pursuant to such application) may, where he deems it appropriate and reasonable so to do, require the applicant solicitor to confirm in writing the accuracy of all or any specified part or parts of such application.
( b ) Where, on receipt of a confirmation in writing required by him pursuant to clause (a) of this Regulation, he deems it appropriate and reasonable so to do, the Registrar may require the applicant solicitor to attend before the Compensation Fund Committee to further confirm the accuracy of all or any specified part or parts of the application so delivered to the Registrar.
5.
An applicant solicitor who in an application delivered to the Registrar knowingly furnishes information that is false or misleading in a material respect shall be guilty of misconduct.
Dated this 18th day of December, 1995.
Signed on behalf of the Law Society of Ireland
pursuant to Section 79 of the Solicitors Act, 1954 .
ANDREW F. SMYTH,
President of the Law Society of Ireland.
SCHEDULE
within referred to.
THE LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND
Blackhall Place, Dublin 7.
APPLICATION FOR A PRACTISING CERTIFICATE 1996*
(for the practice year ending 31st December, 1996)
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