S.I. No. 605/2002 - The Solicitors Acts, 1954 To 2002 Solicitors (Practising Certificate 2003 Fees) Regulations, 2002

1. (a) These Regulations may be cited as the Solicitors Acts, 1954 to 2002 Solicitors (Practising Certificate 2003 Fees) Regulations, 2002.

(b) These Regulations shall come into operation on the 1

st

day of January 2003.

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 set out in the Schedule to the Solicitors Acts 1954 to 2002 (Practising Certificate 2003 Regulations, 2002 purporting to be completed and signed by an applicant solicitor personally;

“Registrar”

means the registrar of solicitors appointed pursuant to

Section 8

of the

Solicitors Act, 1954

.

(b) Other words and phrases in these Regulations shall have the meaning assigned to them by the Solicitors Acts, 1954 to 2002.

(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. On the coming into operation of these Regulations, the Solicitors (Practising Certificate 2002 Fees) Regulations, 2001 (

S.I. No. 634 of 2001

) shall cease to have effect except in respect of an application for a practising certificate for the practice year commencing 1

st

January 2002 or any earlier practice year.

4. As and from the coming into operation of these Regulations, the appropriate registration fee together with the annual contribution to the Compensation Fund specified in the Schedule to these Regulations shall be paid to the Society by an applicant solicitor.

5. As and from the coming into operation of these Regulations, the fee payable by a person who applies to the Registrar, pursuant to

Section 17

of the

Solicitors (Amendment) Act, 1960

, for a copy of an entry on File A or File B shall be as specified in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Dated this 20 day of December 2002

Signed on behalf of the Law Society of Ireland pursuant to

Section 79

of the

Solicitors Act, 1954

.

________________________________

GERALDINE CLARKE

President of the Law Society of Ireland

SCHEDULE

within referred to

EURO

(a) Registration fee for the practice year commencing 1

st

January 2003 payable on application for a practising certificate by a solicitor who has been admitted three years or more on 1

st

January 2003.

€1,240

(b) Registration fee for the practice year commencing 1

st

January 2003 payable on application for a practising certificate by a solicitor who has been admitted less than three years on 1

st

January 2003.

€963

(c) Annual contribution to the Compensation Fund for the practice year commencing 1

st

January 2003.

€500

(d) Fee payable on each application for a copy of an entry on File A or File B pursuant to

Section 17

of the

Solicitors (Amendment) Act, 1960

€6

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

Section 82

of the

Solicitors Act, 1954

and by

Section 22

of the

Solicitors (Amendment) Act, 1960

(as substituted by

Section 30

of the

Solicitors (Amendment) Act, 1994

) HEREBY MAKE the following Regulations:-