Solicitors (Amendment) Act, 1994
Jurisdiction | Ireland |
Citation | IR No. 27/1994 |
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Number 27 of 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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SOLICITORS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PART I | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Preliminary and General | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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PART II | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Name and Membership of Law Society of Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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PART III | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Investigation of Complaints | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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PART IV | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Protection of Clients | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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PART V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Qualifying for Admission as a Solicitor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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PART VI | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Practising Certificates and Practice | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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PART VII | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Miscellaneous Provisions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Number 27 of 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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SOLICITORS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE SOLICITORS ACTS, 1954 AND 1960 , AND TO PROVIDE FOR RELATED MATTERS. [4th November, 1994] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PART I Preliminary and General | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Short title, collective citation, construction and commencement. |
1.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Solicitors (Amendment) Act, 1994. |
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(2) The Solicitors Acts, 1954 and 1960 , and this Act may be cited together as the Solicitors Acts, 1954 to 1994, and shall be construed together as one Act. |
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(3) Section 68 of this Act shall come into operation 3 months after the date of its passing. |
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(4) Sections 16 , 17 , 18 , 22 , 23 , 25 and 58 (3) of this Act shall come into operation on such day as may be fixed by order of the Minister. |
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Interpretation. |
2.—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires— |
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“the Principal Act” means the Solicitors Act, 1954 ; |
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“the Act of 1960” means the Solicitors (Amendment) Act, 1960 ; |
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“apprentice” includes a person who has completed the term of his indentures of apprenticeship but who has not yet been admitted as a solicitor; |
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“authorised person” means a person authorised in writing by the Society for the purpose of exercising any of the Society's functions pursuant to section 14 of this Act or pursuant to or as prescribed pursuant to section 66 (as substituted by this Act) of the Principal Act; |
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“bank” and cognate words shall be construed in accordance with section 75 of this Act; |
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“bill of costs” includes any statement of account sent, or demand made, by a solicitor to a client for fees, charges, outlays, disbursements or expenses; |
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“clerk or servant” includes an apprentice and a person employed whole-time or part-time by a solicitor and a person providing services under a contract for services; |
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“client” includes the personal representative of a client and any person on whose behalf the person who gave instructions was acting in relation to any matter in which a solicitor or his firm had been instructed; and includes a beneficiary to an estate under a will, intestacy or trust; |
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“client account” means an account opened and kept by a solicitor arising from his practice as a solicitor at a bank for clients' moneys, in accordance with regulations made pursuant to subsection (1) of section 66 (as substituted by this Act) of the Principal Act; |
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“clients' moneys” means moneys received, held or controlled by a solicitor arising from his practice as a solicitor for or on account of a client or clients, whether the moneys are received, held or controlled by him as agent, bailee, stakeholder, trustee or in any other capacity; |
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“Compensation Fund” means the fund maintained by the Society pursuant to sections 21 and 22 (as substituted by this Act) of the Act of 1960; |
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“contentious business” means business done by a solicitor in or for the purposes of or in contemplation of proceedings before a court or tribunal or before an arbitrator appointed under the Arbitration Acts, 1954 and 1980 ; |
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“Disciplinary Tribunal” means the Disciplinary Tribunal established by section 6 (as substituted by this Act) of the Act of 1960, and, as and from the coming into operation of section 16 of this Act, any reference to the Disciplinary Committee in the Act of 1960 shall, subject to section 16 (2) of this Act, be construed as a reference to the Disciplinary Tribunal; |
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“indentures” means indentures of apprenticeship; |
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