Solicitors (Amendment) Act, 1994
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Number of apprentices (section 36 of Principal Act). |
47.—The Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution of the following section for section 36: | |
“Number of apprentices. | ||
36.—(1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, a practising solicitor shall not have more than two apprentices at the same time under indentures of apprenticeship. | ||
(2) A practising solicitor may, with the written consent of the Society, have under indentures of apprenticeship one apprentice for every two assistant solicitors in his employment or in the employment of his firm at the date of the registration under section 28 of this Act of each such indentures of apprenticeship. | ||
(3) Where a practising solicitor has, under subsection (2) of this section, an apprentice or apprentices under indentures of apprenticeship the terms of which are unexpired, that solicitor shall notify the Society in the event of the number of assistant solicitors employed being reduced below the ratio provided for in that subsection and the notification shall be made within three months of the reduction of the number of assistant solicitors below the said ratio. | ||
(4) Where the Society have been notified under subsection (3) of this section or otherwise become aware of a reduction in the number of assistant solicitors employed below the ratio provided for in that subsection, service or continued service under his indentures of apprenticeship by each apprentice concerned shall be deemed not to be good service, unless the Society direct otherwise.”. |