S.I. No. 320/1993:

THE SOLICITORS ACTS, 1954 AND 1960 (APPRENTICESHIP AND EDUCATION) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1993.

THE SOLICITORS ACTS, 1954 AND 1960 (APPRENTICESHIP AND EDUCATION) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1993.

The Incorporated Law Society of Ireland in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Sections 4 , 5 and 40 of the Solicitors Act, 1954 , hereby makes the following Regulations:--

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Solicitors Acts, 1954 and 1960 (Apprenticeship and Education) (Amendment) Regulations, 1993 ( S.I. No. 320 of 1993 ) and they will come into operation on the 1st March, 1994.

2. In these Regulations "the Principal Regulations" means the Solicitors Acts, 1954 and 1960 (Apprenticeship and Education) Regulations, 1991 ( S.I. No. 9 of 1991 ).

3. The Principal Regulations are hereby amended by the addition of the following clause to Regulation 15 as substituted by Regulation 5 of the Solicitors Acts, 1954 and 1960 (Apprenticeship and Education) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations, 1992 ( S.I. No. 360 of 1992 ):

"( e ) Subject to Regulation 16 (a), a person being a graduate of University College, Galway who has taken the degree of Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) in that university, may, at the discretion of the committee, be exempted from the Final Examination -- First part, provided that such person has passed, prior to the granting of the degree of Bachelor of Laws, university examinations in each of the subjects specified in Section 1 and Section 2 and has achieved, in passing each of those examinations, such a standard as may be specified by the Committee, notwithstanding that such person may not have passed such examinations as part of the degree of Bachelor of Laws itself, but as part of some other prior degree taken in University College, Galway, provided that such person complies with the following:

(i) he shall have passed, as part of any such prior degree course and prior to the granting of that degree, university examinations in any subject or subjects specified in Section 1 or Section 2 taken as part of such prior degree, and shall have achieved, in passing each of those examinations, such a standard as may be specified by the committee;

(ii) he shall have achieved in such prior degree such a standard as may be specified by the committee;

(iii) any such prior degree course shall have been completed not more than three years before the embarking by such person on the Degree of Bachelor of Laws;

(iv) other than in the case of any applicant who shall have passed the Degree of Bachelor of Arts in Legal Science in University College, Galway, no fewer than five of the eight subjects specified in Section 1 and Section 2 shall have been taken as part, and prior to the granting, of the degree of Bachelor of Laws;"

Dated this 3rd day of November, 1993.

Signed on behalf of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

RAYMOND T. MONAHAN,

President of the Incorporated Law

Society of Ireland.