Solicitors Act, 1954

PART VI.

Practice.

Qualifications for acting as solicitor.

54.—(1) A solicitor who has the qualifications specified in subsection (2) of this section may act as a solicitor and is referred to in this Act as a solicitor qualified to practise.

(2) The qualifications referred to in subsection (1) of this section are:—

(a) that the name of the solicitor is on the roll;

(b) that he does not stand suspended from practice; and

(c) that either he is a solicitor in the full-time service of the State or a practising certificate in respect of him is in force.

(3) A solicitor shall be regarded as a solicitor in the full-time service of the State if and while he is required to devote the whole of his time to the service of the State as solicitor and is remunerated in respect of such service wholly out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas.