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Amendment of maximum fines provided for in Solicitors Acts.
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22.—(1) The following provisions of the Solicitors Acts, 1954 to 2002, are hereby amended by the substitution of “€3,000” for “£1,500”:
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(a) paragraph (b) of section 55(2) (as amended by section 63 of the Act of 1994) of the Principal Act;
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(b) section 56(2) (as amended by section 64 of the Act of 1994) of the Principal Act;
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(c) paragraph (a) of section 58(2) (as substituted by section 77(a) of the Act of 1994) of the Principal Act;
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(d) subsection (3) of section 63 (as substituted by section 21 of the Act of 1994) of the Principal Act;
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(e) subsection (16)(a) of section 66 (as substituted by section 76 of the Act of 1994) of the Principal Act;
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(f) subsection (4) of section 8 (as substituted by section 18 of the Act of 1994) of the Act of 1960;
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(g) subsection (4)(a)(ii) of section 15 (as substituted by section 25 of the Act of 1994) of the Act of 1960;
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(h) subsection (2)(a) of section 19 (as substituted by section 27 of the Act of 1994) of the Act of 1960;
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(i) subsections (4) and (7) of section 20 (as substituted by section 28 of the Act of 1994) of the Act of 1960; and
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(j) sections 11(5), 15(14) and 78(15)(b) of the Act of 1994.
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(2) The following provisions of those Acts are hereby amended by the substitution of “€30,000” for “£10,000”:
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(a) paragraph (a) of section 55(2) (as amended by section 63 of the Act of 1994) of the Principal Act;
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(b) paragraph (b) of section 58(2) (as substituted by section 77(a) of the Act of 1994) of the Principal Act;
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(c) subsection (16)(b) of section 66 (as substituted by section 76 of the Act of 1994) of the Principal Act;
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(d) subsection (4)(a)(i) of section 15 (as substituted by section 25 of the Act of 1994) of the Act of 1960; and
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(e) section 78(15)(a) of the Act of 1994.
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(3) Section 64(2) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution of “€3,000” for “one hundred pounds” and for “twenty-five pounds”.
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