Solicitors (Amendment) Act, 1994

Amendment of section 3 of Act of 1960.

24.—Section 3 of the Act of 1960 is hereby amended by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (c) in the definition of “misconduct”:

“(c) the contravention of a provision of the Principal Act or this Act or the Solicitors (Amendment) Act, 1994, or any order or regulation made thereunder,”,

and the said definition as so amended is set out in the Table to this section.

TABLE

“misconduct” includes—

(a) the commission of treason or a felony or a misdemeanour,

(b) the commission, outside the State, of a crime or an offence which would be a felony or a misdemeanour if committed in the State,

(c) the contravention of a provision of the Principal Act or this Act or the Solicitors (Amendment) Act, 1994, or any order or regulation made thereunder,

(d) conduct tending to bring the solicitors' profession into disrepute;