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54023001313847 BILLE 0IFIGIGH CUIRTE, 1926.

COURT OFFICERS BILL, 1926.

Mar do tugadh isteach.

As introduced.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

PRELIMINARY.

Section.

1.

Short title and commencement.

2.

Definitions.

PART I.

The Supreme Court and the High Court.

3.

Offices and principal officers.

4.

The Central Office.

5.

The Master of the High Court.

6.

The Taxing-Master’s Office.

7.

The Taxing-Masters.

8.

The Probate Office.

9.

The Probate Officer.

10.

The Bankruptcy Office.

11.


The Registrar in Bankruptcy.

12.

The Assignee in Bankruptcy.

13.

The Office of Accounts and Inquiries.

14.

The Officer for Accounts and Inquiries.

15.

The Accountant ’s Office.

16.

The Accountant.

17.

The Office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court.

18.

The Registrar of the Supreme Court.

19.

The Office of the Registrar to the Chief Justice.

20.

The Registrar to the Chief Justice.

21.

Qualification for Master of the High Court.

22.


Qualification for Taxing-Master.

23.

General staffs of offices.

24.

Appointment of temporary deputies for Master and Taxing-Masters.

25.

Deputies for principal officers.

26.

Transfer of property vested in officials.

27.

Application of Civil Service Regulation Act, 1924.

28.

Abolition of existing posts and officers.

29.

Saving for Land Registry.

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The Circuit Court.

Section.

30.

The Circuit Court Office.

31.


The County Registrar.

32.

Assignment of county registrars to circuit court offices.

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The business of the circuit court office.

34.

Duties of the county registrar.

35.

Transfer of duties of under-sheriff.

36.

Appointment of temporary deputy county registrar 37.

General staff of circuit court office.

38.

Summons-servers.

PART III.

The District Court.

30.

Appointment of district court clerks.

40.

Duties of district court clerks.

41.


Payment of salaries of district court clerks.

42.

Abolition of Registrar of District Court Clerks.

43.

Disposal of fines, etc.

PART IV.

Miscellaneous.

44.

Abolition of High Sheriff.

45.

Execution of death sentences.

46.

Winding-up of lunacy fund.

47.

Closing of district probate registries.

48.

Court fees.

4!).

Nomination of court stockbrokers, court receivers, etc.

50.

Security to be given by certain officers.

51.


Officers paid out of clerical allowances.

52.

Existing officers and servants.

53.

.Salaries and expenses.

----- ------------------------------------------------------- SAORSTAT E1REANN.

BILLE OIFIGIGH CUIRTE, 1926.

COURT OFFICERS BILL, 1926.

BILL entitled 5 * AN ALT TO ESTABLISH AND REGULATE THE OFFICES AND OFFICERS TO BE ATTACHED TO THE SEVERAL COURTS OF JUSTICE AND THE JUDGES OF THOSE COURTS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES 10 CONNECTED THEREWITH.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS OF SAORSTAT El RE ANN AS FOLLOWS:— PRELIMINARY.

15 1.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Court Officers Act, 1926.

Short tltle and commencement.

(2) This Act shall come into operation on such day as shall be fixed by order of the Minister either generally or in respect of any particular Part of this Act, and different dates may be fixed for the commencement of different Parts of this Act.

2__ In this Act— Definitions.


20 the expression “ the Minister ” means the Minister for Justice; the expression “ the Chief Justice ” means the Chief Justice of the Irish Free State.

PART I.

The Supreme Court and the High Court.

25 3.

—(1) There shall be attached to the High Court, the Supreme Offices and prin- Court, and the Chief Justice respectively the following offices, clPal officers, that is to say:— To the High Court, The Central Office, The Master's Office.
The Taxing-Master’s Office, The Probate Office, The Bankruptcy Office, The Accounts and Inquiries Office, The Accountant's Office; To the Supreme Court, The Office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court; To the Chief Justice, The Office of the Registrar to the Chief Justice; (2) There shall he attached to the High Court, the Supreme Court, and the Chief Justice respectively the following officers (in this Part of this Act collectively referred to as principal officers), that is to say :— To the High Court, A Master who shall be styled the Master of the High Court, 30 35 40 45 Such number of Taxing-Masters as the Minister shjill, with the sanction of the Minister for Finance, from time to time determine, An Officer for Accounts and Inquiries, A Probate Officer, A Registrar in Bankruptcy, An Assignee in Bankruptcy, A11 Accountant; To the Supreme Court, A Registrar; To the Chief Justice, A Registrar; 5 jq (3) The Master of the High Court and the Taxing-Masters shall be appointed by the Executive Council and every other of the said principal officers shall be appointed by the Minister, and 15 all the said principal officers (including the Master of the High Court and the Taxing-Masters) shall hold office at the pleasure of the Executive Council.
(4) Subject to the persons respectively appointed thereto being in good health at the time of appointment, the offices of the 20 Master of the High Court and of the Taxing-Masters shall be pensionable offices within the Superannuation Acts, 1834 to 1923, and the pension, allowance, or gratuity granted to or in respect of a Master of the High Court or a Taxing-Master on his retire­ ment or death shall be ascertained in the manner and subject to 25 the conditions prescribed by those Acts.
(5) The Master of the High Court and every Taxing-Master shall retire from office on attaining the age of seventy years.
4.—(1) The Central Office shall be under the management of the Master of the High Court, and there shall be transacted in 30 that office all such business as is from time to time directed by statute or rule of court to be transacted therein and also all other business of the High Court except such business as is for the time being required by law to be transacted by or before one or more judges or a master and except such business as is for 35 the time being assigned by law to another office of the High Court.
(2) Such and so many as the Minister shall think proper of the officers for the time being serving in the Central Office shall be nominated by the Minister to be registrars of the High Court 40 and every such registrar (in addition to any other duties which may be assigned to him by the Master of the High Court) shall act as registrar to the High Court as and when directed so to do by the Master of the High Court.
—fhe Master of the High Court shall, subject to the general 45 direction of the Minister, have the general superintendence and control of all offices established by this Part of this Act and shall also have and exercise such powers and authorities and perform and fulfil such duties and functions as shall be from time to time conferred on or assigned to him by statute or rule 50 of court, and in particular (unless and until otherwise provided by statute or rule of court) shall have and perform all such other powers, authorities, duties, and functions as are or become vested in him by virtue of any other provision of this Act.
6* -The 1 axing-Master s Office shall be under the management 55 of the Taxing-Master or, whenever there is more than one Taxing- Master, the senior Taxing-Master, and there shall be transacted in that office the business of the Faxing-Masters other than such business as is required by law to be performed by a Taxing- Master in person.
^ oU The several 1 ax in g-I\ Tasters shall have and exercise such powers and authorities and perform and fulfil such duties and functions as shall from time to time be conferred 011 or assigned 4 The Central Office.

The Master of the High Court.

The Taxing- Master’s Office.

The Taxing- Masters.


to them by statute or rule of court and in particular (unless and until otherwise provided by statute or rule of court) shall have and exercise all such powers and authorities and perform and fulfil all such duties and functions in relation to the High 5 Court, the Supreme Court, the Court of Criminal Appeal, and the Chief Justice as were formerly possessed and performed by the Taxing-Masters of the Supreme Court of Judicature in Ire­ land in relation to that Court.

8.
—The Probate Office shall be under the management of the The Probate 10 Probate Officer and there shall be transacted therein all such (){fice- business as shall from time to time be assigned thereto by statute or rule of court and in particular (unless and until otherwise provided by statute or rule of court) all the business which immediately before the passing of this Act was required by law 15 to be transacted in the Principal Probate Registry and also such other business as has heretofore been transacted in the offices of the Principal Probate Registrar.
9.

—The Probate Officer shall have and exercise all such powers The Probate and authorities and perform and fulfil such duties and functions Officer.
20 as shall from time to time be conferred on or assigned to him by statute or rule of court and in particular (unless and until otherwise provided by statute or rule of court) shall have and exercise all such powers and authorities as immediately before the passing of this Act were vested by law in the Principal 25 Probate Registrar or an Assistant Probate Registrar and shall perform and fulfil such duties and functions as immediately before the passing of this Act were required by law to be or were in fact performed or fulfilled by the Principal Probate Registrar and the Assistant Probate Registrars respectively.
30 10.—(1) The Bankruptcy Office shall consist of two branches The Bankruptcy whereof one branch shall be styled the Registrar’s Branch and Office, the other shall be styled the Assignee’s Branch.
(2) The Registrar’s Branch of the Bankruptcy Office shall be under the management of the Registrar in Bankruptcy and there 35 shall be transacted therein all such business as shall from time to time be assigned thereto by statute or rule of court and in particular (unless and until otherwise provided by statute or rule of court) all such business as was formerly transacted in the Bankruptcy Office of the King’s Bench Division of the High 40 Court of Justice in Ireland.
(3) The Assignee’s Branch of the Bankruptcy Office shall be under the management of the Assignee in Bankruptcy and there shall be transacted therein all such business as.shall from time to time be assigned thereto by statute or rule of court and in 45 particular (unless and until otherwise provided by statute or rule of court) all such business as was formerly transacted in the Office of the Official Assignee of the King’s Bench Division of the High Court of Justice in Ireland.

11.
—The Registrar in Bankruptcy shall have and exercise all The Registrar in 50 such powers and authorities and perform and fulfil such duties an-iup y. and functions as shall from time to time be conferred on or assigned to him by statute or rule of court and in particular (unless and until otherwise provided by statute or rule of court) shall have and exercise all such powers and authorities as 55 immediately before the passing of this Act were vested in the Chief Registrar in Bankruptcy of the King’s Bench Division of the High Court of Justice in Ireland and shall perform and fulfil such duties and functions as immediately before the passing of this Act were required by law to be or were in fact performed 60 or fulfilled by the said Chief Registrar and the Registrar and Deputy Registrar in Bankruptcy of the said King's Bench Division respectively.
12.

The Assignee in Bankruptcy shall have and exercise all I he Assignee in _ * Bankruptcy.
such powers and authorities and perform and fulfil such duties and functions as shall from time to time be conferred on or assigned to him by statute or rule of court and in particular (unless and until otherwise provided by statute or rule of court) shall have and exercise all such powers and authorities as imme- 5 diately before the passing of this Act were vested by law in the Official Assignee in Bankruptcy of the King’s Bench Division of the High Court of Justice in Ireland and shall perform and fulfil such duties and functions as immediately before the passing of this Act were required by law to be or were in fact 10 performed or fulfilled by the said Official Assignee.
13.—The Office of Accounts and Inquiries shall be under the management of the Officer for Accounts and Inquiries and there shall be transacted in that office all such business as shall from time to time be assigned thereto by statute or rule of court and 15 in particular (unless and until otherwise provided by statute or rule of court) ail such business as was formerly transacted in the offices attached to the respective Chambers of the Master of the Rolls and the ordinary judge of the Chancery Division of Ihe High Court of Justice in Ireland and also such business as 20 was formerly transacted in the offices attached to the Land Judge of the said Chancery Division including the offices attached to that Judge in his capacity of Receiver Judge.
1^*—The Officer for Accounts and Inquiries shall have and exercise all such powers and authorities and perform and fulfil 25 such duties and functions as shall from time to time be conferred on or assigned to him by statute or rule of court and in parti- cuiar (unless and until otherwise provided by statute or rule of court;) shall perform and fulfil such duties and functions as were formerly performed or fulfilled by the several Chief Clerks and 30 Assistant Chief Clerks of the Master of the Rolls and the ordinary judge of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice in Ireland respectively and by the Registrar to the Land Judge of the said Chandery Division and by the Chief Receiver.
15.
The Accountant’s Office shall be under the management 35 of the Accountant of the High Court and there shall be transacted in that office all such business as shall from time to time be assigned thereto by statute or rule of court and in particular (unless and until otherwise provided by statute or rule ot court) all such business in relation to the High Court, 40 1 be Supreme Court, and the Chief Justice as was formerly 1 uinsactcd in the Consolidated Accounting Office of the Supreme Court of Judicature in Ireland in relation to that Court.
16.

—'The Accountant of the High Court shall have and exercise all such powers and authorities and perform and fulfil 45 such duties and I unctions as shall from time to time be conferred on or assigned to him by statute or rule of court and in parti­ cular (unless and until otherwise provided by statute or rule of • court) shall perform and fulfil in relation to the High Court, the Supreme t ourt.
and the Chief Justice all such duties and 50 functions as were formerly performed and fulfilled by the Accountant-General of the Supreme Court of Judicature in Ire­ land in relation to that Court.

17.
17.

—The Office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court shall be under the management of the Registrar of the Supreme Court 55 and there shall be transacted in that office all the business of the Supreme Court (except such business as is for the time being uquirnl b\ law 10 be transacted by or before one or more of Mie judges o!
that Court) and also all the business of the Court of Criminal Appeal (except such business as is for the time being 60 required by law to be transacted by or before one or more of the judges of that Court).

The Office of Accounts and Inquiries.

The Officer for Accounts and Inquiries.

The Accountant’s Office.

The Accountant.

The Office of the ' Registrar of the Supreme Court.

The Registrar of the Supreme Court.

18.


The Registrar of the Supreme Court shall act as registrar to that Court and also as Registrar to the Court of Criminal 6 Appeal and shall perform and fulfil in relation to those Courts all such duties and functions as are usually performed and ful­ filled by the registrar of a court and shall also have and exercise such powers and authorities and perform and fulfil such duties and functions as shall from time to time he assigned to him by statute or rule of court.
19.

—The Office of the Registrar to the Chief Justice shall be under the management of the Registrar to the Chief Justice and Ihere shall be transacted in that office all such business as shall 10 from time to time be assigned thereto by statute or rule of court and in particular (unless and until otherwise provided by statute or rule of court) all such business in relation to the exercise of the jurisdictions transferred to the Chief Justice by section 19 of the Courts of Justice Act.

1924 (No.
1924 (No.

10 of 1924), as was 15 formerly transacted in relation to the exercise of those jurisdic­ tions in the Lunacy Office of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland and in the offices attached to the Chambers of the said Lord Chancellor.

The Office of the Registrar to the Chief Justice.

The Registrar to the Chief Justice.

20.


—The Registrar to the Chief Justice shall have and exercise 20 all such powers and authorities and perform and fulfil such duties and functions in relation to the exercise of the jurisdic­ tions transferred to the Chief Justice by section 19 of the Courts of Justice Act, 1924 (No.
10 of 1924), as shall from time to time be conferred on or assigned to him by statute or rule of 25 eourt and in particular (unless and until otherwise provided by statute or rule of court) shall have and exercise all such powers and authorities as were immediately before the passing of this Act vested in the Registrar in Lunacy in Ireland or in the Chief Clerk to the Lord Chancellor for Ireland and shall perform and 30 fulfil all such functions and duties in relation to the exercise of the jurisdictions aforesaid as were formerly performed and ful­ filled by the said Registrar in Lunacy and the said Chief Clerk respectively.
21.

—No person shall be appointed under this Act to be Master 35 of the High Court unless at the time of his appointment he is a barrister of not less than ten years standing who either is then actually practising or has previously practised for not less than ten years.

Qualification for Master of the High Court.

22.


—No person shall be appointed under this Act to be a 40 Taxing-Master unless either— (</) he is at the time of his appointment a solicitor of not less than ten years standing who either is then actually practising or has previously practised for not less than ten years, or 45 (b) he was, immediately before the commencement of this Part of this Act, a Taxing-Master attached to the High Court.

23.
23.

—(1) In addition to the principal officers there shall be employed in the several offices established by this Act such and 50 so many officers, clerks, messengers, criers, and servants as the Minister shall, with the sanction of the Minister for Finance, from time 1o time determine.
(2) All officers (other than the principal officers), clerks, mes­ sengers, criers, and servants employed in any of the offices 55 established by this Act shall be interchangeable amongst such offices and shall be liable to serve in any of those offices as the Minister shall from time to time direct.

Qualification for Taxing- Master.

General staffs of offices.

24.


-0) In the event of the temporary absence or the tem­ porary incapacity through illness of the Master of the High fiO Court or any Taxing-Master or in the event of the office of such Master or Taxing-Master being vacant the Minister may appoint a deputjr to execute Ihe office of such Master or Taxing-Master during such absence, incapacity, or vacancy.

Appointment of temporally deputies for Master and Taxing- Masters, 7 Deputies for principal officers.
Transfer of property vested in officials.

(2) A deputy appointed under this section shall while his appointment continues have and exercise all the powers and authorities and shall perforin and fulfil all the duties and functions of the officer whose deputy he is.

(3) Except in the case of the temporary incapacity of an 5 officer through illness no office shall be executed by a deputy appointed under this section for any period or periods exceeding in all three months in any year.
(4) No person shall be appointed under this section to be a Deputy-Master of the High Court or a Deputy-Taxing-Master jq who does not possess the qualifications prescribed by this Act for persons appointed to be Master of the High Court or Taxing- Master (as the case may be).
25.—The Minister may in the case of each of the offices established by this Part of this Act (other than the Central 15 Office and the Taxing-Master’s Office) nominate one of the officers for' the time being serving in the office to be the deputy for the principal officer having under this Act the management of such office, and every officer so nominated shall, during every tem­ porary absence and every temporary incapacity through illness 20 of such principal officer and every occasion on which the office of such principal officer is vacant occurring while such nomina­ tion remains unrevoked, have and exercise the powers and authorities and perform and fulfil the duties and functions for the time being vested by law in such principal officer.
05 26.—(1) All securities and moneys which are immediately before the commencement of this Part of this Act standing in the books of the government of Saorstat Eireann or any foreign government or any bank or any company or other body corporate whatsoever (whether such bank, company, or body is within or 30 outside Saorstat Eireann) in the name of the Accountant-General of the High Court of Justice of Saorstat Eireann or of the Accountant-General of the Supreme Court of Judicature in Southern Ireland shall immediately upon the commencement of this Part of this Act become and be vested in the Accountant of 35 the High Court of Justice of Saorstat Eireann without any transfer, assignment, or other instrument.
(2) All real and personal property (including ehoses-in-action) whatsoever which is immediately before the commencement of this Part of this Act vested in the Official Assignee of the High 40 Court shall immediately upon the commencement of this.
Part of this Act become and be (without any conveyance, transfer, or other instrument) vested in the Assignee in Bankruptcy of the High Court for all the estate and interest and subject to the trusts and for the purposes for and subject to which such pro- 45 perty was respectively vested in the said Official Assignee, and accordingly all securities and moneys which are immediately before the commencement of this Part of this Act standing in the hooks of the government of Saorstat Eireann or any foreign government or any bank, or any company or other body corporate 50 whatsoever (whether such bank, company, or body is within or outside Saorstat Eireann) in the name of the Official Assignee of the High Court of Justice of Saorstat Eireann or of the Official Assignee of the High Court of Justice in Southern Ire­ land shall immediately upon the commencement of this Part of 55 this Act become and be vested in the Assignee in Bankruptcy of the High Court of Justice of Saorstat Eireann without any transfer, assignment, or other instrument.
(3) In this section— the word “ securities ’’ includes every description of stocks, qo shares, debentures, bonds, mortgages, and other securities and all dividends and interest accrued or accruing thereon • the word “ moneys ’ ’ includes moneys in bank on deposit or current accounts; 8 and references to the books of a government, bank, company, or other body corporate includes books kept for a government, bank, company, or body corporate by any bank, company, body, or person.
5 27.—During the period of eighteen months from the com­ mencement of this Fart of this Act, the Civil Service Regulation Act, 1924 (No.

5 of 1924), shall not apply to any appointment of an existing officer to an office created by this Part of this Act or to a situation in any office established by this Part of this Application of Civil Service Regulation Act, 1924.

10 Act.

Abolition of existing posts and officers.


In this section the expression “ existing officer ” means and includes all registrars, clerks, messengers, oriel's, and other officers and servants (not being temporary officers or servants) who at the commencement of this Part of this Act are 15 attached to the Supreme Court, the Court of Criminal Appeal, the High Court, or the Chief Justice.
28.—(1) Whenever it is expressly enacted by this Part of this Act that any officer holding a post (in this sub-section referred to as the new post) created by this Part of this Act is 20 to have or exercise the powers or authorities or perform or fulfil the duties or functions which were formerly vested in or imposed on the holder of a post (in this sub-section referred to as the existing post) existing immediately or at any other time before the commencement of this Part of this Act, the existing post 25 if not abolished by virtue of any other provision of this Act is hereby abolished as from the commencement of this Part of this Act, and as from the abolition of the existing post (whether effected by this sub-section or by some other provision of this Act) every enactment referring to the existing post (other than 30 enactments relating to the appointment to, qualification for, or remuneration or tenure of the existing post) shall, if and so far as such enactment continues in force and capable of taking effect, be construed and have effect as if in lieu of the references therein to the existing jiost there were inserted therein references 35 to the new post.
(2) Whenever it is enacted by this Part of this Act that the business to be transacted in any office (in this sub-section referred to as the new office) is to be or to include the business formerly transacted in an office (in this sub-section referred to as the 40 existing office) existing immediately or at any other time before the commencement of this Pail of this Act, the existing office if not abolished by virtue of any other provision of this Act is hereby abolished as from the commencement of this Pali: of this Act, and as from the abolition of the existing office (whether 45 effected by this sub-section or by some other provision of this Act) all references in any enactment to the existing office (other than references to the staff of the existing office) shall be con­ strued as references to the new office and such enactment shall have effect accordingly.
50 (3) Every post— , 55 60 (a) which is at the commencement of this Part of this Act attached to the Supreme Court, the High Court, the Court of Criminal Appeal, or the Chief Justice or was attached to the former Supreme Court of Judicature or the Lord Chancellor for Ireland, and (b) was created by statute or rule of court, and (r) the powers, authorities, duties, or functions of the holder of which are not expressly transferred by this Part of this Act to the holder of a post created by this Act.
is hereby abolished (unless abolished by virtue of any other pro­ vision of this Act) as from the commencement of this Part of this Act, and as from such abolition (whether effected by this sub-section or by any other provision of this Act) the powers, authorities, duties, and functions of the holder of the post shall, 9 so lav as.they remain capable, qf heirlg, exercised pi- performed, |)o vested in the JU^stei; of the .High .Court unless andi until other­ wise provided by rules of court, and; every enactment referring to the holder of such post (other than enactments, relating to the appointment to, qualification for, or remuneration or tenure 5 of such > post) shall, >if and so far as the same continues in force and capable of taking effect, be construed'1 and have effect as referring to the Master of the High Court in lieu of the holder of such‘potft.
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** provision oi this Act) as from the commencement of this Part of 20 this Act, and as from such abolition (whether effected by this !
sub-section or by some other provision of this Act) the business formerly transacted in such office shall, if and so far as the same shall require to be transacted, be transacted in the Central Office unless and until otherwise provided by rules of court, and every 25 enactment referring to such office (other than enactments relating to the staff of such office) shall, if and so far as the same con­ tinues in force and capable of taking effect, be construed and have effect as referring to the Central Office in lieu of such office.
Saving for Land Registry.

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29.

-Nothing in this Act shall apply to the Land Registry or 30 any other office established by or under the Local Registration of Title (Ireland) Act, 1891, and neither the Land Registry nor an> other office established as aforesaid shall for the purposes of this Act be deemed to be or to have been attached to the High Court or to the former Supreme Court of Judicature or any 35 braiich or division thereof.

1 ,!’l,r PART II.

The Circuit Court.


The Circuit Court Office.

Vi," 30.—(1) There shall be established in and for every county and every county borough an office attached to the Circuit Court 40 ;t- and styled the Circuit Court Office.
.-I X,2)( The Minister may at any time and for so long as he thinks prbper amalgamate any two or more counties or any county borough and 011c or more counties for the purposes of the Circuit 1 oiirt, and while any such amalgamation continues there shall 45 be only one circuit court office in and for such amalgamated counties or county borough and county or counties.
(&) The Minister may at any time divide any county into two or more parts for the purposes of the Circuit Court and when- ever any county is so divided a separate circuit court office shall 50 be established in and for every such part of such county.

The County Registrar.

( 31.—^(1) There shall be attached to the Circuit Court so many County Registrars as, (the Minister, with the sanction of the Miller lor Finan<^ .shall ,frqm ,time to .time ydirecl.

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u (2) Every county registrar shall be appointed by the Executive 55 CouncM and shall hold office' at the pleasure of' the Executive Council; i i:' '*• • U'i •' • ri.fr ■?■' • : :i -;.rt !<• • i:-i; *.?

N ; •< >■ t> • (3) No ..person shall be,,appointed to be a county registrar unless at the time of his appointment he is cither— 10 • ■ - (o) a-solicitor of not loss than eight years' standing who is ' ■ 'then actually practising or has p'rbvifitisly practised j ' 1 : t t n • - y, • ,• |« i | ?.
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* 11 * 1 (4) Subject to the person appointed thereto bein^r i*i good health at the time of appointment, the office of county registrar shall be a pensionable office within the Superdmiuatio'n Acts, 10 1834 to 1923, and the pension, allowance, or gratuity granted to or in respect of a county registrar on his retirement or death shall be ascertained in the manner and subject to the conditions prescribed by those Acts.
(5) Every county registrar shall retire on attaining the age 15 of sixty-five years, but such age of retirement may, in the case of any particular county registrar, be extended by the Minister to any age not exceeding sixty-eight years.

32.—(1) Even* county registrar appointed under this Act Assignment of shall be assigned to such circuit court office as the Minister shall county regis- 20 from time to time direct. "

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court offices, (2) Every county registrar shall be known and is in this Act referred to as the county registrar for the county, county borough, or other area served by the circuit court office to which .

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25 (3) All references in this Act to a county registrar in relation to a circuit court office shall be construed as references to the county registrar for the time being assigned under this section to such office and all references in this Act to a county registrar in relation to a county, county borough, or other area shall ;be 30 construed as references to the county registrar for the time being assigned to the circuit court office for that area.

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—Every circuit court office shall be under the control and The business of management of the county registrar and there shall be transacted the circuit court in every circuit court office all such business as is from time to °^ce* 35 time directed by statute or rule of court to be transacted therein and (unless and until otherwise directed by statute or rule of court) also all other business of the Circuit Court in the county, county borough, or other area served by such office except such business as is required by law to be transacted by or before the \ .of.
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40 C ireuit Judge.

( (>i • 1 W< J-qi./ 34.
—(1) Every county registrar shall have and exercise such Duties of the powers and authorities and shall perform and fulfil such duties county and functions as shall be from time to time conferred or imposed reSlstrar» on him by statute or rule of court and in particular shall perfonh 45 and fulfil the duties and have and exercise the powers and authorities expressly imposed or conferred on him by this Act and (unless and until otherwise provided by statute or rule of court) shall also, save as is otherwise provided by this Act, perform and fulfil all the duties and have and exercise all the 50 powers and authorities which immediately before the commence- m ment of this Part of this Act were by law imposed on or vested in the clerk of the crown and peace or the registrar of a Civil Bill Court or, where a local bankruptcy court formerly existed, the registrar, official assignee, or any other officer of that court.
!£ * r) ' 55 (2) Rules of court made under section 66 of the, Courts of ,, Justice Act, 1924 (Nd.
10 6f 1924);' may provide for the hearing and determination (subject qr .not subject, to an appeal' to: the Circuit Judge) by the county registrar ,pf all- or any class or'»’ > classes of interlocutory applications and unopposed final appla-o'> r>0 cations in or in relation to suits or matters in the Circuit Cquit as well as the taking or mnkihg of all or any class of classes qf accounts and inquiries in such suits or matters. '

‘ ; 11 Transfer of duties of under- sheriff.


Appointment of temporary deputy county registrar.

(3) The county registrar of the county; county 'borough, or other area in which the Central Criminal Court is for the time being sitting shall act as registrar to that Court, and perform and fulfil such duties and functions in relation to that Court as shall be assigned to him by rules of court.
5 (4) The county registrar shall be entitled to be paid and to receive the like fees and allowances in respect of work done by him as registration officer under the Electoral Act, 1923 (No.

12 of 1923), the Local Government Electors Registration Act, 1924 (No.

7 of 1924), and the Juries (Amendment) Act, 1924 (No.
18 10 of 1924), or any of those Acts as the Clerk of the Crown and Peace was, immediately before the commencement of this Part of this Act, entitled to he paid and to receive in respect of that work, but the Minister for Finance may by order require the county registrar to surrender to the Exchequer so much of the 15 fees received by him under this sub-section as in the opinion of the said Minister are paid to him in respect of work for which he is otherwise adequately remunerated out of moneys provided hv the Oireachtas.
35.

—-(1) No appointment shall he made to the office of under- 20 sheriff after the passing of this Act.
(2) In every county and county borough in which the office of under-sheriff is vacant at the commencement of this Part of this Act all the powers, duties, authorities, rights, and obligations of the several under-sheriffs of such counties and county boroughs 25 respectively shall as on and from such commencement become and be transferred to and vested in or imposed on the several county registrars of such counties and county boroughs respectively.
(3) In every county and county borough in which the office of under-sheriff is not'vacant at the commencement of this Part 30 of this Act all the powers, duties, authorities, rights, and obligations of the several under-sheriffs of such counties and county boroughs respectively shad as on and from the respective dates on which the office of under-sheriff in such counties and county boroughs respectively first becomes vacant after the 35 commencement of this Part of this Act become and he transferred to and vested in or imposed on the several county registrars of such counties and county boroughs respectively.
36.
—(1) In the event of the temporary absence or the tem­ porary incapacity through illness of any county registrar or in 40 the event of the office of county registrar for any circuit court office being vacant the Minister may appoint a deputy to execute the office of such county registrar during such absence, incapa­ city, or vacancy, but unless and until the Minister appoints such deputy the office of such county registrar shall (save as is here- 45 inafter provided) be executed during such absence, incapacity, or vacancy by the senior officer in the circuit court office.
(2) A deputy appointed under this section shall, while his appointment continues, have and exercise all the powers and authorities and shall perform and fulfil all the, duties and fune- 50 tions of the county registrar whose deputy he is.
(3) Rules of court may provide that specified powers, authori­ ties duties, and functions of a county registrar shall not be exercised or performed by the senior clerk under this section, and where rules of court so provide the powers, authorities, 55 duties, and functions se specified shall not be exercised or per­ formed by the senior clerk under this section.
(4) Except in the ease of the temporary incapacity of a count}' registrar through illness no office shall be executed by a deputy appointed under this section for any period or periods exceeding 60 in all three months in any year.

(5) 'No person shall be appointed under this section to he a deputy for a county registrar unless he possesses the qualifications prescribed by this Act for parsons appointed to be county registrars.
55 12 37__ 1There shall be employed in every circuit court office Ge^[talc&0t^ °f (*stahlished under this Act such and so many officers, clerks, messengers, and servants as the Minister shall, with the sanction of the Minister for Finance, from time to time determine and 5 all such officers, clerks, messengers, and servants shall hold office on such terms and conditions as the Minister for F inance shall prescribe and shall be paid out of moneys to he provided by the Oireachtas such salaries as the Minister shall, with the sanction of the Minister for Finance, direct.
C0U1 10 38.—(1) There shall be attached to every circuit court office ^u™™°ns' such and so many summons-servers as the county registrar, with the sanction of the Minister, shall think proper.

(2) Subject to the provisions of this section, every such sum­ mons-server shall be appointed by the county registrar with and 15 subject to the approval of the Minister and shall hold office at the will of and may be removed by the Minister.

PART ITT.

The District Court.

39.


—(1) There shall be attached to the District Court such Appointment 20 and so many district court clerks as the Minister shall, with the of sanction of the Minister for Finance, from time to time direct.

cour c r s’ (2) Subject to the provisions of this seetion, every district court clerk shall he appointed by the Minister and shall hold office at the will of and may he removed by the Minister.
25 (3) Every person who immediately before the commencement of this Part of this Act holds the office of district court clerk under the District Justices (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1923 (No.
6 of 1923) or, in the Dublin Metropolitan Area and in the County Borough of Cork, the office of chief or other clerk of the 30 District Court in that area and borough respectively and in any such case is at the commencement of this Act under the age of sixty-five years shall, on the commencement of this Part of this Act, become and be a district court clerk under this Act and shall hold such office on the same terms and conditions in all 35 respects as if he had been appointed thereto by the Minister under this Act.
(4) The district court clerk’s office shall for Ihe purposes of this Act be deemed to he an office established by this Act.

40.
—Every district court clerk shall he assigned to such one Duties of 40 or more court districts as the Minister shall from time to time district court direct and shall have and exercise all such powers and authorities 1 ei s* and perform and fulfil all such duties and functions in relation to the District Court ill such court district or districts as shall from time to time be conferred or imposed on to him by statute 45 or rule of court and in particular (unless and until otherwise provided hv statute or rules of court) shall have and exercise all such powers and authorities and perform and fulfil all such duties and functions in such court district or districts as imme­ diately before the commencement of this Act were vested by 50 law in or required by law to be performed or fulfilled by the district court clerk or.
in the Dublin Metropolitan Area and the County Borough of Cork, by the chief and other clerks of the District Court in that area and borough respectively.
41.—(1) From the commencement of this Part of this Act until Payment of 55 the appointed day the salaries and allowances ot all district court salaries of cour<’ clerks assigned to any district or districts within the Dublin Metropolitan Area shall be paid out of moneys to he provided by the Oireachtas and the salaries and allowances of all district court clerks assigned to anv district or districts outside the 13 — Dublin Metropolitan Area shall be paid out of the same funds as those out ot which the salaries of district court clerks wrere immediately before the commencement of this Part of this Act required by law to be paid, and any deficiency in such funds to meet the amounts of such salaries, shall, to such extent,.as 5 • t'l/.
the Minister for Finance may Sanction, be made good out of i : 1 r-, « o;,‘ moneys to be provided by the Oireachtas.

V n<>; ,'i ‘Jtti&h (2) In ,this and.

the two following sections the expression the appointed day ’ ’ means such day as the Minister shall by order appQint to be the appointed day for the purpose'of those sections...... •.

• • 10 Abolition of Registrar of District Court Clei’ks.
42.—(1) In this and the next following section of this Act the expression Registrar of District Court Clerks ” means the person appointed under the Petty Sessions Clerk (Ireland) Act, ' 1858 to discharge the duties prescribed by that Act for the 15 registrar to perform.
(2) As on the appointed day the office of registrar of district court clerks shall cease to exist and after that day such of the duties of that office as continue to exist shall be discharged by the principal officer of the Department of Justice or by such 20 other officer of the Minister as the Minister shall from time to time direct.
<3) The fund known as the District Court Clerks Fund shall be wound up as on the appointed day and so soon as may be after that day all invested funds and all other moneys on that 25 day in the hands of the registrar of district court clerks or standing in the name of that registrar either alone or jointly with any other public official and being or representing moneys collected by or under the control of the registrar of district court clerks shall he paid into or disposed for the benefit of the 30 Exchequer in such manner as the Minister for Finance shall direct.
(4) From and after the appointed day all salaries, allowances, arid expenses theretofore chargeable on or payable out of moneys * collected by or under the control of the registrar of district court 35 clerks shall, if and so far as the same continue to be payable, he paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas.

43.—(1) Save as is otherwise provided under this section, all Disposal of .

fines, etc.

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fines, etc.

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?•• ■> .fines, amerciaments, penalties and forfeited recognisances imposed ' levied by any court after the appointed day shall be paid into 40 or disposed Cor the benefit of the Exchequer in such manner as the Minister for Finance shall direct and notwithstanding any enactment to the contrary, no part of any such fine, amerciament, penalty, or recognisance shall he paid or allowed to any prose­ cutor, informer, or other person.
‘ 45 <2) So much of any fine, amerciament, penalty, or forfeited recognisance imposed or levied by any court on’ or before the appointed day as is not received by the registrar of district court clerks on or before that day or lawfully paid before, on, or after that-day to a prosecutor, informer, or other person shall (save as 30 is otherwise provided under this section) be paid into or disposed for-the benefit of the Exchequer in such manner as the Minister for Finance shall direct.
(3) The Minister may, with the concurrence of the Minister for Finance, by order direct that the whole or any specified portion 55 of every fine belonging to any particular class or classes of fines- in the order shall not he paid into the Exchequer under this section and that, in lieu of, being so paid, the whole err such specified portion (as the case may be) of every such fine- shall he i paid to such prosecutor, informer, or other person and upon such » * ; jc ^prrns conditions as shall he specified, in the order in respect n r m m m m m m [ {.
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n .. ■- of each particular class or classes of.

fines.

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Misceulaneous,, ,, .

I 44—The office of high sheriff is.hereby abolished in qvery county and county borough.

, , , , , Abolition of High Sheriff.

5 45.-r4t shall not henceforth be the duty of any under-sheriff to, carry into effect sentences of death' imposed by courts of .
; justice and in lieu thereof the duty of carrying info effect such’ sentences shall henceforth be performed by the governor or ofliOf principal officer of the prison in which the person on whom the 10 sentence was imposed is confined at the time when the sentence Execution of death sentences.

is to be carried into effect.

46.


—(1) The lunacy fund referred to in sections 110 and lib of the Lunacy Regulation (Ireland) Act, 1871 shall be wound up on such day (hereinafter referred to as the closing day) after 15 the commencement of this Part of this Act and before the next following 1st day of April as the Minister shall, with the sanetioh of the Minister for Finance, appoint.
(2) All investments, securities, funds, and moneys standing <b the credit of the lunacy fund on the closing day shall on that 20 day or so soon thereafter as conveniently may be be paid into or disposed for the benefit of the Exchequer in such manner as the Minister for Finance shall direct.
./ (3) From and after the closing day the percentage charged on the estate of lunatics under sections 109 to 114 of the Lunacy 25 Regulation (Ireland) Act, 1871 shall be paid into the Exchequer in such manner and at such times as the Minister for Finance shall direct.
(4) The Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, from time to time vary the rates of the said percentage 30 charged on the estate of lunatics and may, if he so thinks fit but with the consent aforesaid, raise such rates above or reduce such rates below the rates and total amounts specified in section 109 .
of the Lunacy Regulation (Ireland) Act, 1871, but until such rates are varied under this section the said percentage shall be 33 charged at the rates at which it was chargeable immediately before the commencement of this Part of this Act.

47.

— (1) The Minister may by order close any district probate registry as from such date (not being earlier than the date of the order) as he shall think proper.
40 (2) Whenever the Minister makes an order under this section closing a district probate registry such registry shall as froth the date specified in the order for the closing thereof cease to exist and, save as hereinafter mentioned, the Probates and Letters of Administration Act (Ireland), 1857 shall have effect in the dis- 45 triet previously served by such registry as if that district were omitted from Schedule (A) of that Act.

Winding-up of lunacy fund.

Closing of * district probate ‘ registries.


(3) Whenever the Minister makes an order under this section closing a district probate registry the Minister may by such order, if he so thinks fit, make provision for enabling applications tor 50 probates of wills and letters of administration in eases in which the testator or intestate (as the ease may be) at the time of his.
death had a fixed place of abode within the district previously served by such registry to be lodged with the county registrar for the area in which such registry was formerly situate and for 55 the transmission of such applications by the county registrar to the principal probate registry and the transmission of the pro­ bates and letters of administration (if and when issued) frotn the principal probate registry to the said bounty registrar for delivery to the person .entitled thereto.

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* ■ ' ‘ * " ' ’ 60 48.—(1) The Minister may.

with the sanction of the Minister for Finance, by order prescribe and from time to time a’f( occasion requht*s vary or otherwise revise the tees to be charged in the several offices established by this Act and may by any suclj order prescribe, in addition to the amounts of such fees, 15 Court fees.
the persons by whom and the occasions on which such fees are to be paid and the officers by whom and the manner in which such fees are to be collected.

(2) All fees collected under an order made under this section shall be paid into or disposed for the benefit of the Exchequer 5 in such manner as the Minister for Finance shall direct.
(3) Unless and until the fees to be charged in any office established by this Act are prescribed by an order under this section there shall be charged in such office the fees which imme­ diately before the passing of this Act were chargeable in the 10 office in which was then transacted the business assigned by this Act to the first-mentioned office.

(4) So much of the Courts of Justice Act, 1924 (No.
10 of 1924) as authorises the fees to be charged in any court or office to be fixed by rules of court is hereby repealed.

15 49.
15 49.

— (1) All such stockbrokers, receivers, auctioneers, asses­ sors, and other persons as shall from time to time be required to be retained to render occasional services in or for any court or for any judge or officer of any court shall be nominated and retained by the Minister on such terms and conditions as he shall 20 (subject to the sanction of the Minister for Finance in respect of any payment of remuneration out of public moneys) think proper.
(2) Every nomination and retainer made by the Minister under the foregoing sub-section may be revoked by the Minister 25 at any time.
(3) Every nomination or retainer by whomsoever made of any such person as aforesaid which is in force at the commence­ ment of any Part (other than this Part) of this Act in relation to any court, judge, or officer to which such Part relates may be 30 revoked by the Minister at any time after such commencement, but unless and until such nomination or retainer is so revoked the same shall continue in force according to the terms thereof including any term relating to the duration thereof.

50.
50.

—(1 ) Every person appointed to a post or situation to 35 which this section for the time being applies shall before entering on the duties of such post or situation give security for the discharge of the duties of such post or situation in such manner and for such amount as shall be prescribed under this section.
(2) The Minister may from time to time by order prescribe 40 the posts created by this Act and the posts and situations in the offices established by this Act to which this section shall apply and may by any such order prescribe, wdth the sanction of the Minister for Finance, the manner in wffiich and the amount for which security is to be given under this section in respect of each 45 such post and situation but so that the amount for which such security is to be given shall not in any case exceed twice the annual salary of the post or situation in respect of which the security is given.
51.

(1) The Civil Service Commissioners may grant to any 50 person who at the passing of this Act is employed during the whole of his time in an office attached to a court of justice and is paid wholly or partly out of clerical allowances given out of public moneys to the head of that office a certificate of qualifica­ tion in respect of the situation in which he is so employed in 55 such office.
(2) A certificate of qualification granted under the foregoing sub-section may be expressed to take effect from a date prior to the date on which it is granted but not in any case prior to the 1st day of January, 1924, and when a certificate of qualification 50 is so expressed to take effect from a date prior to the date on which it is granted the person to wrhom the certificate is granted shall be deemed to have been paid from moneys provided by the Oireachtas within the meaning of section 17 of the Superaunua- 16 Nomination of court stock­ brokers, court receivers, etc.
Security to be given by certain officers.

Officers paid out of clerical allowances.

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# 4 tion Act, 1859 as from the said date from which the certificate is expressed to take effect.
(3) Whenever a person who at the passing of this Act is employed during the whole of his time in office attached to a 5 court of justice and is paid wholly or partly out of clerical allowances given out of public moneys to the head of that office and attained the age of fifty-five years before the 1st day of January, 1924 is discharged from such employment or from any employment under this Act, the Minister for Finance may pay 10 to such person on his discharge such gratuity as such Ministei thinks proper, but not exceeding twice the amount of the salary and emoluments received by such person from whatsoe\ ei souiec during the last year of his employment.
52.—(1) All registrars, clerks, officers, messengers, criers, and ^fRcera and.

15 servants (in this section referred to as existing officers and ser- servants.

vants) who at the passing of the Courts of Justice Act, 1924 (No.
10 of 1924), were either attached to a court then existing or to the person of a judge then holding office or were employed in a court office then existing and are at the passing of this Act 20 attached or performing duties in relation to any* court or judge or are employed in any* court office shall immediately upon the commencement of the Part of this Act relating to such couit, fudge, or office cease to hold office and their respecti\c offices shall be and are hereby abolished as from such commencement.
25 (2) Subject to the provisions of this Act prescribing the qualifications and retiring ages for particular officers, e\eiy existing officer and servant jvho is not a temporary officei oi servant shall (so far as conveniently may be) be offered employ­ ment in a situation under this Act analogous to and carrying 30 not less salary than the situation held by him" as such existing officer or servant at the passing of this Act.
(3) The following provisions shall apply to every existing officer who accepts employment in a situation under this Act, that is to say :— 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 (a) the acceptance of such employment shall not prejudice or affect (save as is hereinafter mentioned) his rights arising under Article 10 of the Treaty of 1921 on the abolition of his office, (b) he shall not be entitled to receive any annual allowance under the said Article 10 in respect of any period for which he receives salary in a situation under this Act nor to receive any gratuity or lump sum payment under the said Article 10 while receiving such salary, (c) on his ceasing to hold a situation under this Act he shall be entitled to receive at his option either such com­ pensation as he may be entitled to under the said Article 10 or such allowance or other compensation as he may be entitled to under the Superannuation Acts.
1834 to 1923 as modified for and applied to him by this sub-section, (d) in lieu of the foregoing paragraphs, the offer of employ­ ment under this Act may be made conditional on his waiving all right to compensation under the said Article 10 in respect of abolition of or discharge from office but with the right to withdraw such, waiver in the event of his being subsequently discharged from such employment for any reason other than age.
mis­ conduct, incapacity or ill-health, (e) he shall hold the situation under this Act by the tenure and on the conditions prescribed therefor by or under this Act; (/) on his ceasing to hold a situation under this Act the Superannuation .Vets, 1834 to 1923 shall apply to him in the same manner and to the same extent as they applied to him immediately before the commence­ ment of this Part of this Act but with the modification that in computing the period of his service for the purposes of those Acts he shall be entitled to reckon 17 as continuous service for those purposes whatever period (if any) of service he was or is deemed by virtue of this sub-action to have been entitled imme­ diately before the commencement of this Part of this • Act to reckon as service for those purposes and his 5 period of service in a situation under this Act; (ff) however he was in fact paid he shall be deemed to have been paid from moneys provided by Parliament or the Oireachtas within the meaning of section 17 of the Superannuation Act, 1859 during the whole of 10 his period of service in an office attached to any court (not being an inferior court) in Ireland or in Saorstat Eireann or to the Lord Chancellor for Ire­ land, the Lord Chief Justice for Ireland, or the Chief Justice of the Irish Free State, and if, in consequence 15 of the source from which he was paid, the Super­ annuation Acts, 1834 to 1923 did not apply to him those Acts shall for the purposes of this sub-section be deemed to have applied to him immediately before the commencement of this part of this Act; 20 Salaries and expenses.
53.—All salaries payable under this Act and all other expenses incurred under or in the execution of this Act shall be paid out of moneys to be provided by the Oireachtas.

Saorsictt Eireann BILLE OIFIGIGH CUIRTE, 1926.


Saorstat Eireann COURT OFFICERS BILL, 1926. i i BILLE (mar da tugadh isteach) da ngairmtear BILL (as introduced) entitled Acht chun 11a hoifigi agus na hoifigigh a bhainjidh le sna Cuirteanna Breithiurais fe seach, agus le Breithiuin 11a gCuirteanna san do bhunu agus do regleail agus chun erlcheanna cile a bhaineas Icis sin.
An Act to establish and regulate the offices and officers to be attached to the several Courts of Justice and the Judges of those Courts and for other purposes connected there­ with.

An tAire DU agus Cirt do tliug isteach.

Introduced by the Minister for Justice.

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