The Criminal Justice (Legal Aid) Act, 1962, is hereby amended, in section 10(1), by the addition of the following after paragraph (c):
(i) a requirement that a solicitor who has notified a county registrar in accordance with the Criminal Justice (Legal Aid) Regulations, 1965 (S.I. No. 12 of 1965), of his willingness to act for persons to whom legal aid certificates are granted must, when required to do so by the Minister, furnish to the County Registrar a certificate issued by the Collector-General (within the meaning of section 851 of the Taxes Consolidation Act, 1997) in respect of that solicitor certifying that he has complied with all the obligations imposed on him by the Tax Acts, the Capital Gains Tax Acts and the Value-Added Tax Act, 1972, and the enactments amending or extending that Act (and any instruments made under those Acts) in relation to -
(I) the payment or remittance of the taxes, interest and penalties required to be paid or remitted, and
(II) the delivery of re
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