S.I. No. 47/1973 - Solicitors Act 1954 (Apprenticeship and Education) (Amendment) Regulations, 1973.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the

Solicitors Act 1954

(Apprenticeship and Education) (Amendment) Regulations 1973 and shall be read together with the

Solicitors Act 1954

(Apprenticeship and Education) Regulations 1955 (

S.I. No. 217 of 1955

) (hereinafter called "the Principal Regulations"), the

Solicitors Act 1954

(Apprenticeship and Education) (Amendment) Regulations 1956 (

S.I. No. 307 of 1956

), the

Solicitors Act 1954

(Apprenticeship and Education) (Amendment) Regulations 1960 (

S.I. No. 94 of 1960

), the

Solicitors Act 1954

(Apprenticeship and Education) (Amendment) Regulations 1965 (

S.I. No. 201 of 1965

), the

Solicitors Act 1954

(Apprenticeship and Education) (Amendment) Regulations 1966 (

S.I. No. 230 of 1966

), the

Solicitors Act 1954

(Apprenticeship and Education) (Amendment) Regulations 1968 (

S.I. No. 17 of 1968

), the

Solicitors Act 1954

(Apprenticeship and Education) (Amendment) Regulations 1969 (

S.I. No. 110 of 1969

), the

Solicitors Act 1954

(Apprenticeship and Education) (Amendment) Regulations 1970 (

S.I. No. 108 of 1970

), the

Solicitors Act 1954

(Apprenticeship and Education (Amendment) Regulations 1971 (

S.I. No. 218 of 1971

) and

Solicitors Act, 1954

(Apprenticeship and Education) (Amendment) Regulations 1972 (

S.I. No. 49 of 1972

) and shall insofar as they are inconsistent therewith alter and amend the same. The Regulations hereinbefore mentioned may be cited collectively as the

Solicitors Act 1954

(Apprenticeship and Education) Regulations 1955–1973.

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on 8th February 1973.

3. Paragraph 10 of the Principal Regulations as amended by the

Solicitors Act 1954

(Apprenticeship and Education) (Amendment) Regulations 1969 (

S.I. No. 110 of 1969

) is hereby deleted and the following paragraph is substituted therefor.

10. The subjects at the preliminary examination shall be as follows

Compulsory—English, Mathematics and Latin.

Optional—any three subjects from History, Geography, Greek, a modern language (other than Irish) approved by the Court of Examiners, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Commerce (which is comprised of four sections namely Economics, Business Organisation, Accountancy and Economic History of which the candidate will take one section only).

Signed on behalf of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland this 8th day of February 1973.

THOMAS V. O'CONNOR,

President of the IncorporatedLaw Society of Ireland.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The effect of the regulations is to provide that a candidate taking Commerce as one of the optional subjects will take one section only instead of two as at present.

S.I. No. 47 of 1973.

SOLICITORS ACT 1954 (APPRENTICESHIP AND EDUCATION) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1973.

The Incorporated Law Society of Ireland in exercise of the powers conferred on them by

Sections 4

,

5

and

40

of the

Solicitors Act, 1954

, hereby make the following regulations.