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Solicitors Act, 1943

Exemption of solicitors in the service of the State from taking out annual certificates.

1.—(1) It is hereby declared and enacted that it is not and never was obligatory for a solicitor employed (whether before or after or partly before and partly after the passing of this Act) in the service of the State as a solicitor to take out or hold, while so employed, such certificate as is mentioned in section 38 of the Solicitors (Ireland) Act, 1898, and consequently that—

(a) a solicitor employed in the service of the State as aforesaid is not and never was prevented from being duly qualified to act as a solicitor within the meaning of section 6 of the said Act by reason only of his not taking out or holding such certificate while so employed, and

(b) section 48 of the said Act does not and never did apply or have effect in relation to any act or proceeding done or taken by a solicitor while so employed in the service of the State.

(2) A solicitor shall only be regarded as employed in the service of the State within the meaning or for the purposes of the foregoing sub-section of this section if and while he is or was required to devote the whole of his time to that employment and is or was remunerated in respect of such employment wholly out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas.