S.I. No. 329/1978 - Solicitors' Remuneration General Order 1978.

1. This Order may be cited as the Solicitors' Remuneration General Order, 1978 and this order and the Solicitors' Remuneration General Order, 1884, the Solicitors' Remuneration General Order (No. 1) 1920, the Solicitors' Remuneration General Order, 1947, the Solicitors' Remuneration General Order, 1951, the Solicitors' Remuneration General Order, 1960, the Solicitors' Remuneration General Order, 1964, the Solicitors' Remuneration General Order, 1970 and the Solicitors' Remuneration General Order, 1972, shall be read together and may be cited as the Solicitors' Remuneration General Orders, 1884 to 1978.

2. The following fees chargeable under Schedule II of the said General Order of 1972 shall be increased as follows

Item

2

£0.41 shall be increased to

£0.58

Item

3

£0.17 shall be increased to

£0.24

Item

4

£0.13 shall be increased to

£0.19

Item

5

£0.07 shall be increased to

£0.10

Item

6

£0.04 shall be increased to

£0.06

Item

7

£0.20 shall be increased to

£0.28

Item

8

£1.34 shall be increased to

£1.88

Item

9

£0.04 shall be increased ot

£0.06

£0.47 shall be increased to

£0.66

Item

10

£0.04 shall be increased to

£0.06

Item

11

£0.50 shall be increased to

£0.70

Item

12

£1.34 shall be increased to

£1.88

Item

13

£1.01 shall be increased to

£1.42

Item

14

£1.34 shall be increased to

£1.88

Item

15

£25.40 shall be increased to

£35.56

Item

16

£4.03 shall be increased to

£5.65

£25.40 shall be increased to

£35.56

Item

17

£0.50 shall be increased to

£0.70

£0.67 shall be increased to

£0.94

Item

18

£0.41 shall be increased to

£0.58

£0.13 shall be increased to

£0.19

Item

19

£0.17 shall be increased to

£0.24

Item

20

£4.70 shall be increased to

£6.58

This Order shall apply only to business transacted after the 29th day of June, 1978.

Dated this 29th day of June, 1978.

THOMAS F. O'HIGGINS,

Chief Justice

.

THOMAS A. FINLAY,

President of the High Court

.

BRIAN WALSH,

Senior Ordinary Judge of the Supreme Court.

JOSEPH L. DUNDON,

President of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland

.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Order authorises an increase in specified charges in solicitors' costs for non-contentious business. It does not affect the present commission scale fee on sales, purchases, leases, mortgages or settlements.

S.I. No. 329 of 1978.

SOLICITORS' REMUNERATION GENERAL ORDER 1978.

We, the body in that behalf authorised by the Solicitors' Remuneration Act, 1881, as adapted by the Solicitors' Remuneration Act, 1881, (Adaptation) Order, 1946 (S.R. and O. 1946 No. 208) made pursuant to the

Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922

, do hereby, in pursuance and execution of the powers given to us by the said Statute as so adapted, and after due compliance with section 3 of the Solicitors' Remuneration Act, 1881, make the following General Order.