Courts (Supplemental Provisions) Act, 1961 
Number  39 of 1961. 
COURTS (SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS) ACT, 1961. 
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 
PART I 
Preliminary and General 
Section 
1. Short title and commencement. 
2. Interpretation generally. 
3. Repeals and saving. 
PART II 
Supreme Court, High Court, Chief Justice, President of the High Court, Central Criminal Court 
and Court of Criminal Appeal
 
4. Number of ordinary judges of Supreme Court and High Court. 
5. Qualifications of judges of Supreme Court and High Court. 
6. Pensions of judges of Supreme Court and High Court. 
7. General jurisdiction of Supreme Court. 
8. General jurisdiction of High Court. 
9. Jurisdiction of High Court in lunacy and minor matters. 
10. Jurisdiction of Chief Justice and President of the High Court. 
11. The Central Criminal Court. 
12. Jurisdiction of Court of Criminal Appeal. 
13. High Court Circuits. 14. Jurisdiction to be exercised pursuant to rules of court (Supreme Court, 
High Court, Chief Justice, President of the High Court, Central 
Criminal Court and Court of Criminal Appeal). 
PART III 
Circuit Court 
15. Definitions (Part III). 
16. Number of ordinary judges of Circuit Court. 
17. Qualifications of judges of Circuit Court. 
18. Age of retirement of judge of Circuit Court. 
19. Pensions of judges of Circuit Court. 
20. Circuits and assignment of judges to circuits. 
21. Circuit Court to be a court of record. 
22. Jurisdiction of Circuit Court, except in applications for new on-licences and 
in indictable offences. 
23. Jurisdiction of Cork Circuit Court Judge in admiralty causes and in 
bankruptcy. 
24. Jurisdiction of Circuit Court in applications for new on-licences. 
25. Jurisdiction of Circuit Court in indictable offences. 
26. Transfer of trials in criminal cases by judge of the Circuit Court. 
27. Jurisdiction to be exercised pursuant to rules of court (Circuit Court, Cork 
Local Admiralty Court and Cork Local Bankruptcy Court). 
PART IV 
District Court 
28. Number of justices of District Court. 
29. Qualifications of justices of District Court and interpretation of section 2 
of the Act of 1949, as applied by section 48 of this Act. 
30. Age of retirement of justice of District Court. 
31. Pensions of justices of District Court. 
32. District court areas and districts and assignment of justices to districts. 
33. Jurisdiction of District Court. 
34. Jurisdiction to be exercised pursuant to rules of court (District Court). 35. Qualification for appointment as President of the District Court and 
assignment. 
36. General powers of President of the District Court. 
37. Abolition of Divisions of Dublin Metropolitan Justices. 
38. Principal Justices of the Dublin Metropolitan District. 
39. Number of justices of Dublin Metropolitan District. 
40. Places at which business of Dublin Metropolitan District is to be 
transacted. 
41. Number of sitting days in each week for justices assigned to Dublin 
Metropolitan District. 
42. Business of District Court in Dublin Metropolitan District. 
43. Restriction of section 26 of Act of 1953. 
44. Ex officio members of District Court Rules Committee. 
PART V 
Miscellaneous Provisions 45. Administration of justice otherwise than in public. 
46. Provisions in relation to remuneration and pensions of judges and 
justices. 
47. Interest on judgment debts. 
48. Application of enactments relating to existing courts and judges and 
officers thereof, and rules of court. 
49. Preservation of continuity of administration and enforcement of justice. 
50. Appeals from District Court in criminal cases against sentence only. 
51. Extension of section 2 of the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1857. 
52. Case stated for High Court on question of law. 
53. Application of section 26 of Hire-Purchase (Amendment) Act, 1960. 
54. Jurisdiction to bind to the peace or to good behaviour. 
55. Offices and officers, etc. under Court Officers Acts, 1926 to 1951. 
56. Power to continue county registrars in office after reaching age of sixty-
five years. 
57. Pension of the Master of High Court, Taxing-Master and county registrar. 
58. Special provisions for person who, on the operative date, holds the office 
of Master of the High Court, Taxing-Master or county registrar. 
59. Officers of Cork Local Admiralty Court and Cork Local Bankruptcy Court. 
60. Right of audience of solicitors in Circuit Court, Cork Local Admiralty Court 
and Cork Local Bankruptcy Court. 
61. Solicitors and commissioners for oaths. 
FIRST SCHEDULE 
Enactments Repealed 
SECOND SCHEDULE 
Pensions of Judges of Courts Established by the Principal Act 
THIRD SCHEDULE 
Civil Proceedings In Respect Of Which The Jurisdiction Of The High Court Is, With Quantitative 
Limitations, Conferred On The Circuit Court, And Judges Of The Circuit Court By Whom The
 
Jurisdiction Is To Be Exercised 
FOURTH SCHEDULE  
     
    
     
    
       
     
       
     
   
     
     
   
      
    
   Jurisdiction of the Circuit Court under certain British statutes and Saorstát éireann statutes, 
and judges of the Circuit Court by whom the jurisdiction is to be exercisedAdaptations (in 
relation to the Circuit Court and the judges thereof) of certain British statutes relating to 
former County Courts, Courts of Quarter Sessions and judges thereof 
FIFTH SCHEDULE 
Adaptations (in relation to the Circuit Court and the judges thereof) of certain British statutes 
relating to former County Courts, Courts of Quarter Sessions and judges thereof
 
SIXTH SCHEDULE 
Assignment of justices of District Court to district court districts 
SEVENTH SCHEDULE 
Existing courts and corresponding courts established by the Principal Act, and judges of 
existing courts and corresponding judges of courts established by the Principal Act 
EIGHTH SCHEDULE 
Provisions in relation to offices and officers to be attached to the High Court, the Supreme 
Court and the President of the High Court 
Acts Referred to 
Courts of Justice Act, 1924 1924, No. 10 
Court Officers Act, 1926 1926, No. 27 
Courts of Justice Act, 1936 1936, No. 48 
Court Officers Act, 1945 1945, No. 25 
Courts of Justice (District Court) Act, 1946 1946, No. 21 
Courts of Justice Act, 1947 1947, No. 20 
Courts of Justice (District Court) Act, 1949 1949, No. 8 
Courts of Justice Act, 1953 1953, No. 32 
Interpretation Act, 1937 1937, No. 38 
Lunacy Regulation (Ireland) Act, 1871 1871, c. 22 
Courts of Justice Act, 1928 1928, No. 15 
Solicitors Act, 1954 1954, No. 36 
Offences Against the State Act, 1939 1939, No. 13 
Maritime Jurisdiction Act, 1959 1959, No. 22 
Treason Act, 1939 1939, No. 10      
    
     
    
    
    
        
    
    
    
   
      
     
   
   
   Courts of Justice Act, 1926 1926, No. 1 
Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1926 1926, No. 45 
Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890 1890, c. 59 
Public Dance Halls Act, 1935 1935, No. 2 
Debtors (Ireland) Act, 1840 1840, c. 105 
Criminal Justice Act, 1951 1951, No. 2 
Courts of Justice and Court Officers (Superannuation) Act, 1961 1961, No. 16 
Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1857 1857, c. 43 
Hire-Purchase (Amendment) Act, 1960 1960, No. 15 
Court Officers Act, 1951 1951, No. 8 
Solicitors Act, 1954 1954, No. 36 
District Justices (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1923 1923, No. 6 
Courts of Justice Act, 1928 1928, No. 15 
Superannuation Act, 1834 1834, c. 24 
Superannuation Act, 1956 1956, No. 38 
Superannuation Act, 1859 1859, c. 26 
Number  39 of 1961. 
COURTS (SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS) ACT, 1961. 
AN ACT TO PROVIDE, IN RELATION TO THE COURTS TO BE ESTABLISHED BY THE COURTS 
(ESTABLISHMENT AND CONSTITUTION) ACT, 1961, AND THE JUDGES AND OFFICERS OF
 
THOSE COURTS, FOR CERTAIN MATTERS NECESSARY TO SUPPLEMENT THAT ACT, TO 
CONFER JURISDICTION ON THE JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT ASSIGNED TO THE CORK CIRCUIT IN ADMIRALTY CAUSES AND IN BANKRUPTCY, TO REPEAL CERTAIN ENACTMENTS, AND TO PROVIDE FOR CERTAIN OTHER MATTERS CONNECTED WITH THE MATTERS AFORESAID. [16
th August , 1961.] 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:— 
PART I 
Preliminary And General   Short title and 
commencement. 1.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Courts (Supplemental Provisions) Act, 1961. 
(2) This Act shall come into operation on the date on which the Principal Act comes into 
operation and immediately after the coming into operation of the Principal Act.
 
Interpretation 
generally. 2.—(1) In this Act— 
“the Act of 1924” means the Courts of Justice Act, 1924 ; 
“the Act of 1926” means the Court Officers Act, 1926 ; 
“the Act of 1936” means the Courts of Justice Act, 1936 ; 
“the Act of 1945” means the Court Officers Act, 1945 ; 
“the Act of 1946” means the Courts of Justice (District Court) Act, 1946 ; 
“the Act of 1947” means the Courts of Justice Act, 1947 ; 
“the Act of 1949” means the Courts of Justice (District Court) Act, 1949 ; 
“the Act of 1953” means the Courts of Justice Act, 1953 ; 
“the Circuit Court” means the Court established by section 4 of the Principal Act; 
“the Court of Criminal Appeal” means the Court established by section 3 of the Principal Act; 
“the District Court” means the Court established by section 5 of the Principal Act; 
“the Dublin Metropolitan District” means the district styled and known as the Dublin 
Metropolitan District under section 64 of the Act of 1936;
 
“enactment” includes a charter and any instrument made under an enactment; 
“the existing Chief Justice” means the judge of the existing Supreme Court who, by virtue of 
section 5 of the Act of 1924, was, immediately before the operative date, president of that
 
Court; 
“the existing Circuit Court” means the Circuit Court of Justice constituted by section 37 of the 
Act of 1924;
 
“the existing Court of Criminal Appeal” means the Court of Criminal Appeal constituted by section 8 of the Act of 1924;
 
“the existing District Court” means the District Court of Justice constituted by section 67 of the Act of 1924;
 
“the existing High Court” means the High Court of Justice constituted by section 4 of the Act of 1924;
  
  
 “the existing President of the Circuit Court” means the judge of the existing Circuit Court 
who, immediately before the operative date, held the office created by section 9 of the Act of 1947; 
“the existing President of the High Court” means the judge of the existing High Court who, by virtue of section 4 of the Act of 1924, was, immediately before the operative date, president of that Court; 
“the existing Supreme Court” means the Supreme Court of Justice constituted by section 5 of 
the Act of 1924;
 
“the High Court” means the Court established by section 2 of the Principal Act; 
“justice of the District Court” includes, except where the context otherwise requires, the
 
President of the District Court; 
“the Minister” means the Minister for Justice; 
“the operative date” means the date on which this Act comes into operation;
 
“the Principal Act” means the Courts (Establishment and Constitution) Act, 1961 (No. 39 of 
1961); 
“State authority” means any authority being— 
(a) a Minister of State, or 
(b) the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, or 
(c) the Irish Land Commission, or 
(d) the Revenue Commissioners, or 
(e) the Attorney General; 
“the Supreme Court” means the Court established by section 1 of the Principal Act.
 
(2) Except where the context otherwise requires, any reference in this Act to any other 
enactment shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended, adapted or
 
applied by or under any other enactment, including this Act. 
Repeals and 3.—The enactments mentioned in column (2) of the First Schedule to this Act are hereby 
saving. repealed to the extent mentioned in column (3) of that Schedule, but, without prejudice to 
subsection (1) of section 21 of the Interpretation Act, 1937 , such of those enactments as 
relate to the pensions of the judges and justices of the courts established by the Act of 1924 
shall, notwithstanding the repeal thereof, continue to apply to any person who, having been a judge of the existing Supreme Court, existing High Court or existing Circuit Court or a justice of the existing District Court, retired or retires from office before the operative date.  
  
 
 
 
 
 
 PART II 
Supreme Court, High Court, Chief Justice, President of the High Court, Central Criminal Court 
and Court of Criminal Appeal
 
Supreme Court and High Court 
Number of 4.—(1) The number of ordinary judges of the Supreme Court shall be four. 
ordinary judges of 
Supreme Court  
and High Court.  
(2) The number of ordinary judges of the High Court shall not be more than six. 
Qualifications of 5.—(1) ( a) The existing Chief Justice shall be qualified for appointment as Chief Justice and, if 
judges of he is willing to accept office, no other person shall be qualified for appointment as 
Supreme Court Chief Justice. 
and High Court. 
(b) The existing President of the High Court shall be qualified for appointment as 
President of the High Court and, if he is willing to accept office, no other person
 
shall be qualified for appointment as President of the High Court. 
(c) Each of the persons who are ordinary judges of the existing Supreme Court 
immediately before the operative date shall be qualified for appointment as an
 
ordinary judge of the Supreme Court and, if and so long as there is one or more 
than one of those persons who is willing to accept office and has not been appointed, no other person shall be qualified for appointment as an ordinary judge of the Supreme Court. 
(
d) Each of the persons who are ordinary judges of the existing High Court 
immediately before the operative date shall be qualified for appointment as an
 
ordinary judge of the High Court and, if and so long as there is one or more than one of those persons who is willing to accept office and has not been appointed, no other person shall be qualified for appointment as an ordinary judge of the High Court. 
(
e) Paragraphs ( a), (b), (c) and ( d) of this subsection apply only in relation to the 
qualification for appointment of the first judges of the Supreme Court and High Court. 
(
f) Subsections (2), (3), (4) and (5) of this section shall have effect subject to the 
preceding paragraphs of this subsection.
   
  
  
 
 
 (2) (a) A person who is for the time being a practising barrister of not less than twelve 
years' standing shall be qualified for appointment as a judge of the Supreme Court 
or the High Court. 
(b) For the purposes of paragraph ( a) of this subsection, service as a judge of the 
existing Circuit Court or of the Circuit Court shall be deemed practice at the Bar. 
(3) An ordinary judge of the Supreme Court shall be qualified for appointment as President 
of the High Court or as Chief Justice.
 
(4) The President of the High Court shall be qualified for appointment as an ordinary judge 
of the Supreme Court or as Chief Justice.
 
(5) An ordinary judge of the High Court shall be qualified for appointment as an ordinary 
judge of the Supreme Court or as President of the High Court or as Chief Justice.
 
Pensions of judges 6.—(1) The provisions set out in Part I of the Second Schedule to this Act shall apply to the 
of Supreme Court 
and High Court. 
General 
jurisdiction
 of 
Supreme Court. pensions of judges of the Supreme Court and the High Court. 
(2) Where a judge of the Supreme Court or High Court is removed from office on account 
of incapacity, he shall be deemed for the purpose of pension to have vacated his office
 
owing to permanent infirmity. 
7.—(1) The Supreme Court shall be a superior court of record with such appellate and  
other jurisdiction as is prescribed by the Constitution. 
(2) There shall be vested in the Supreme Court— 
(a) all jurisdiction which was, immediately before the commencement of Part I of the Act 
of 1924, vested in or capable of being exercised by the former Court of Appeal in
 
Southern Ireland or any judge or judges thereof and was, immediately before the 
operative date, vested in or capable of being exercised by the existing Supreme Court, 
(
b) all jurisdiction which, by virtue of any enactment which is applied by section 48 of this 
Act, was, immediately before the operative date, vested in or capable of being
 
exercised by the existing Supreme Court. 
(3) Subject to subsection (4) of this section, an appeal to or other matter cognisable by the 
Supreme Court shall be heard and determined by five judges of the Supreme Court,
 
including judges who are by virtue of subsection (3) or (4) of section 1 of the Principal Act additional judges of the Supreme Court.  
 
 
 
  
 General 
jurisdiction of 
High Court. 
Jurisdiction of  
High Court in 
lunacy and minor 
matters. (4) The Chief Justice or, in his absence, the senior ordinary judge of the Supreme Court for 
the time being available may determine that an appeal to or other matter cognisable by the
 
Supreme Court, not being a matter so cognisable under Article 12 or Article 26 of the 
Constitution or a question of the validity of any law having regard to the provisions of the Constitution, is to be heard and determined by three judges and, where such a determination is made, the appeal or matter to which the determination relates shall be heard and determined by three judges of the Supreme Court, including judges who are by virtue of subsection (3) or (4) of section 1 of the Principal Act additional judges of the Supreme Court. 
8.—(1) The High Court shall be a superior court of record with such original and other
  
jurisdiction as is prescribed by the Constitution. 
(2) There shall be vested in the High Court— 
(a) all jurisdiction which was, immediately before the commencement of Part I of the Act 
of 1924, vested in or capable of being exercised by the former High Court of Justice
 
in Southern Ireland or any division or judge thereof and was, immediately before the operative date, vested in or capable of being exercised by the existing High Court, 
(
b) all jurisdiction which, by virtue of any enactment which is applied by section 48 of this 
Act, was, immediately before the operative date, vested in or capable of being
 
exercised by the existing High Court. 
(3) The jurisdictions vested in the High Court shall include all powers, duties and 
authorities incident to any and every part of the jurisdictions so vested.
 
9.—(1) There shall be vested in the High Court the jurisdiction in lunacy and minor matters  
which— 
(a) was formerly exercised by the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 
(b) was, at the passing of the Act of 1924, exercised by the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, 
and
 
(c) was, by virtue of subsection (1) of section 19 of the Act of 1924 and subsection (1) of 
section 9 of the Act of 1936, vested, immediately before the operative date, in the
 
existing High Court.  
 
 
 
  
  
 
 Jurisdiction of 
Chief Justice and 
President of the 
High Court. (2) The jurisdiction vested in the High Court by subsection (1) of this section shall be 
exercisable by the President of the High Court or, where the President of the High Court so 
directs, by an ordinary judge of the High Court for the time being assigned in that behalf by the President of the High Court. 
(3) References in the 
Lunacy Regulation (Ireland) Act, 1871 , and the rules and orders made 
thereunder to “the Lord Chancellor entrusted as aforesaid” shall be construed as references 
to the judge of the High Court for the time being exercising the jurisdiction vested in the High Court by subsection (1) of this section. 
(4) (
a) The President of the High Court or such other Judge of the High Court as may be 
assigned by him under subsection (2) of this section may from time to time by order made under section 118 of the 
Lunacy Regulation (Ireland) Act, 1871 , amend 
any form prescribed by or under that Act for use in relation to the jurisdiction in 
lunacy matters vested in the High Court by subsection (1) of this section by substituting in such form the expression “ward of court” or such other similar expression as he thinks proper for the word “lunatic” and the expression “person of unsound mind” respectively and by making such further consequential amendments in that form as he thinks necessary and proper. 
(
b) Any order made under section 4 of the Courts of Justice Act, 1928 , as amended by 
paragraph ( b) of subsection (2) of section 9 of the Act of 1936, which is in force 
immediately before the operative date shall continue in force and be deemed to 
have been made under paragraph ( a) of this subsection. 
(5) Such solicitors, doctors, visitors and other persons as were, immediately before the 
operative date, retained or nominated in relation to the exercise of any jurisdiction which, by
 
virtue of subsection (1) of section 19 of the Act of 1924 and subsection (1) of section 9 of the Act of 1936, was, immediately before the operative date, vested in the existing High Court shall be retained or nominated by the President of the High Court and section 59 of the Act of 1926, as applied by section 48 of this Act, shall not apply to them. 
Chief Justice and President of the High Court 
10.—(1) There shall be exercisable by the Chief Justice— 
(a) the jurisdiction in relation to solicitors which, by virtue of subsection (2) of section 19 
of the Act of 1924, and subsection (3) of section 14 of the Solicitors Act, 1954 , was, 
immediately before the operative date, vested in or capable of being exercised by 
the existing Chief Justice,  
 
 
 (b) the power of appointing notaries public and commissioners to administer oaths, 
The Central 
Criminal Court. (c) all jurisdiction which, by virtue of any enactment which is applied by section 48 of 
this Act, was, immediately before the operative date, vested in or capable of being
 
exercised by the existing Chief Justice. 
(2) Whenever the Chief Justice is unable owing to illness or for any other reason to transact 
the business of his office, all jurisdictions, powers, authorities and functions for the time
 
being vested in him in virtue of his office shall be exercised or performed by the President of 
the High Court or, in the event of the President of the High Court being unable owing to illness or for any other reason to exercise or perform the said jurisdictions, powers, authorities and functions, by the senior ordinary judge of the Supreme Court who is for the time being available. 
(3) It shall be the function of the President of the High Court or, where he is not available, 
the senior ordinary judge of the High Court who is for the time being available to arrange the
 
distribution and allocation of the business of the High Court. 
(4) Where the Chief Justice is of opinion that the conduct of a justice of the District Court 
has been such as to bring the administration of justice into disrepute, the Chief Justice may
 
interview the justice privately and inform him of such opinion. 
(5) There shall be exercisable by the President of the High Court all jurisdiction which, by 
virtue of any enactment which is applied by section 48 of this Act, was, immediately before 
the operative date, vested in or capable of being exercised by the existing President of the
 
High Court. 
Central Criminal Court 
11.—(1) The High Court exercising the criminal jurisdiction with which it is invested shall be 
known as An Phríomh-Chúirt Choiriúil (The Central Criminal Court) and is in this Act referred to as the Central Criminal Court. 
(2) (
a) The jurisdiction exercisable by the Central Criminal Court shall be exercisable by a 
judge or judges of the High Court (including the President of the High Court) nominated from time to time by the President of the High Court. 
(
b) The jurisdiction of the Court shall be exercisable by each judge for the time being so 
nominated save that, where the President of the High Court directs that two or
 
more such judges shall sit together for the purpose of a particular case, the jurisdiction of the Court for that purpose shall be exercised by those judges sitting together.  
   
 
 
 
 Jurisdiction of 
Court of Criminal 
Appeal. 
High Court 
Circuits. (3) Every person lawfully brought before the Central Criminal Court may be indicted before 
and tried and sentenced by that Court, wherever it may be sitting, in like manner in all 
respects as if the crime with which such person is charged had been committed in the county or county borough in which the said Court is sitting. 
(4) References in any other enactment (whether passed before or after this Act) to the 
Central Criminal Court shall be construed as references to the High Court exercising the
 
criminal jurisdiction with which it is invested. 
Court of Criminal Appeal 
12.—(1) The Court of Criminal Appeal shall be a superior court of record and shall, for the 
purposes of this Act and subject to the enactments applied by section 48 of this Act, have full 
power to determine any questions necessary to be determined for the purpose of doing
 
justice in the case before it. 
(2) There shall be vested in the Court of Criminal Appeal all jurisdiction which, by virtue of 
any enactment which is applied by section 48 of this Act, was, immediately before the 
operative date, vested in or capable of being exercised by the existing Court of Criminal
 
Appeal. 
(3) In subsection (2) of section 44 of the Offences Against the State Act, 1939 , the 
reference to section 30 of the Act of 1924 shall be construed as a reference to subsection (1) 
of this section. 
High Court Circuits 
13.—The grouping of the several counties and county boroughs (other than the county of 
Dublin and the county borough of Dublin) in the State into High Court Circuits under subsection (1) (repealed by this Act) of section 33 of the Act of 1936 shall, subject to any 
order which may be made under subsection (2) of the said section 33, as applied by section 
48 
 of this Act, continue to have effect, and references in any enactment to High Court 
Circuits shall be construed accordingly. 
Exercise of Jurisdiction   
  
  
  
 
  
 
 
  
  
   Jurisdiction to be 
exercised 
pursuant to rules 
of court (Supreme 
Court, High Court, 
Chief Justice, 
President of the 
High Court, 
Central Criminal 
Court and Court of 
Criminal Appeal). 
Definitions (Part  
III). 14.—(1) In this section “rules of court” means rules made under section 36 of the Act of 
1924, as applied by section 48 of this Act. 
(2) The jurisdiction which is by virtue of this Act vested in or exercisable by the Supreme 
Court, the High Court, the Chief Justice, the President of the High Court, the Central Criminal
 
Court and the Court of Criminal Appeal respectively shall be exercised so far as regards 
pleading, practice and procedure generally, including liability to costs, in the manner provided by rules of court, and, where no provision is contained in such rules and so long as there is no rule with reference thereto, it shall be exercised as nearly as possible in the same manner as it might have been exercised by the respective existing courts or judges by which or by whom such jurisdiction was, immediately before the operative date, respectively exercisable. 
(3) Rules of court may, in relation to proceedings and matters (not being criminal 
proceedings or matters or matters relating to the liberty of the person) in the High Court and
 
Supreme Court, authorise the Master of the High Court and other principal officers, within the meaning of the Court Officers Acts, 1926 to 1951, to exercise functions, powers and jurisdiction in uncontested cases and to take accounts, conduct inquiries and make orders of an interlocutory nature. 
PART III 
Circuit Court 
15.—In this Part of and in the Third , Fourth and Fifth Schedules to this Act— 
“action” means a civil proceeding in the Circuit Court commenced by civil bill; 
“cause” means any action, suit or original proceeding between a plaintiff and a defendant; 
“defendant” includes respondent; 
“incorporeal hereditament” includes an easement and a licence in respect of land; 
“matter” means any proceeding in the Circuit Court not in a cause;  
 
  
 
 
  “plaintiff” includes applicant and petitioner; 
“proceedings” includes both causes and matters; references to the judge of a particular circuit shall be construed as references to the judge of 
the Circuit Court for the time being assigned to that circuit; 
“personality” does not include chattels real;
 
“land” includes incorporeal hereditaments; 
“rules of court” means rules made under section 66 of the Act of 1924, as applied by section 
48 of this Act. 
Number of 
ordinary judges of 
Circuit Court. 16.—(1) The number of ordinary judges of the Circuit Court shall not be more than eight. 
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, if, on the operative date, there are nine 
ordinary judges of the Circuit Court, then, until the occurrence of the first vacancy in the 
office of judge of the Circuit Court, the number of ordinary judges of the Circuit Court shall
 
not be more than nine. 
Qualifications of 17.—(1) ( a) The existing President of the Circuit Court shall be qualified for appointment as 
judges of Circuit President of the Circuit Court and, if he is willing to accept office, no other person 
Court. shall be qualified for appointment as President of the Circuit Court. 
(b) Each of the persons (other than the existing President of the Circuit Court) who are 
judges of the existing Circuit Court immediately before the operative date shall be
 
qualified for appointment as an ordinary judge of the Circuit Court and, if and so long as there is one or more than one of those persons who is willing to accept office and has not been appointed, no other person shall be qualified for appointment as an ordinary judge of the Circuit Court. 
(
c) Paragraphs ( a) and ( b) of this subsection apply only in relation to the qualification 
for appointment of the first judges of the Circuit Court. 
(d) Subsections (2) and (3) of this section shall have effect subject to the preceding 
paragraphs of this subsection.
 
(2) (a) A person who is for the time being a practising barrister of not less than ten years' 
standing shall be qualified for appointment as a judge of the Circuit Court. 
(b) For the purposes of paragraph ( a) of this subsection, service, in the case of a 
barrister, as a justice of the existing District Court or of the District Court shall be deemed practice at the Bar.   
   
  
   
 
 
  
 (3) An ordinary judge of the Circuit Court shall be qualified for appointment as President of 
the Circuit Court.
 
Age of retirement 18.—(1) The age of retirement of a judge of the Circuit Court shall be seventy years. 
of judge of Circuit 
Court. 
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, the age of retirement of a judge of the 
Circuit Court who was a judge of the existing Circuit Court at the passing of the Act of 1947
 
shall be seventy-two years. 
Pensions of judges 19.—(1) The provisions set out in Part II of the Second Schedule to this Act shall apply to 
of Circuit Court. the pensions of judges of the Circuit Court. 
(2) Where a judge of the Circuit Court is removed from office on account of incapacity, he 
shall be deemed for the purpose of pension to have vacated his office owing to permanent
 
infirmity. 
Circuits and 
assignment of 
judges to circuits. 20.—(1) The circuits created under section 16 (repealed by this Act) of the Act of 1953 shall 
be the circuits for the purposes of the Circuit Court. 
(2) (a) Where a person is appointed a judge of the Circuit Court, the Government shall 
permanently assign him to a particular circuit. 
(b) Notwithstanding paragraph ( a) of this subsection, if, on the operative date, there 
are nine ordinary judges of the Circuit Court so that, in the making of the first 
assignments under that paragraph, one of such judges cannot be permanently assigned to a particular circuit, such judge may be permanently assigned by the Government at any time to a circuit and, pending such assignment, may from time to time be temporarily assigned to any circuit by the President of the Circuit Court. 
(
c) Where a judge of the Circuit Court is temporarily assigned under paragraph ( b) of 
this subsection to a circuit, then, such judge shall, while so temporarily assigned, have, in relation to such circuit and concurrently with any judge permanently assigned thereto and any judge who is temporarily assigned under section 10 of the Act of 1947 as applied by section 48 of this Act to such circuit, all the privileges, 
powers and duties for the time being conferred or imposed by law on a judge of the Circuit Court permanently assigned to such Circuit. 
(3) Any judge of the Circuit Court who is for the time being permanently assigned to a 
particular circuit may at any time, if he so consents but not otherwise, be transferred by the
 
Government to another circuit, and shall upon such transfer become and be permanently assigned to that other circuit in lieu of the first-mentioned circuit.    
   
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 Circuit Court to be 
a court of record. 
Jurisdiction of  
Circuit Court, 
except in 
applications for 
new on-licences 
and in indictable 
offences. 21.—The Circuit Court shall be a court of record. 
22.—(1) ( a) Subject to paragraphs ( b) and ( c) of this subsection, the Circuit Court shall, 
concurrently with the High Court, have all the jurisdiction of the High Court to hear 
and determine any proceedings of the kind mentioned in column (2) of the Third 
Schedule
 to this Act at any reference number. 
(b) Unless the necessary parties to the proceedings in a cause sign, either before or 
at any time during the hearing, the form of consent prescribed by rules of court,
 
the Circuit Court shall not, by virtue of paragraph ( a) of this subsection, have 
jurisdiction to hear and determine any cause of the kind mentioned in column 
(2) of the Third Schedule to this Act at a particular reference number in the case 
mentioned in column (3) of the said Schedule at that reference number.
 
(c) The Circuit Court shall not, by virtue of paragraph ( a) of this subsection, have 
jurisdiction to hear and determine any matter of the kind mentioned in column 
(2) of the Third Schedule to this Act at a particular reference number in the case 
mentioned in column (3) of the said Schedule at that reference number.
 
(d) The jurisdiction of the Circuit Court to hear and determine proceedings of the 
kind mentioned in column (2) of the Third Schedule to this Act at a particular 
reference number shall be exercised by the judge of the Circuit Court
 
mentioned in column (4) of the said Schedule at that reference number. 
(e) Where an incorporeal hereditament is involved in any proceedings in respect of 
which the Circuit Court has jurisdiction by virtue of this subsection, references
 
in column (4) of the Third Schedule to this Act to the circuit where the land or 
any part of the land is situate shall be construed as references to the circuit
 
where the land or any part of the land to, out of or in respect of which the 
incorporeal hereditament is annexed, arises, issues or is exercisable is situate. 
(2) The Circuit Court shall, concurrently with the High Court, have and exercise the 
jurisdiction in lunacy matters which was conferred on the Lord Chancellor of Ireland by
 
section 68 of the Lunacy Regulation (Ireland) Act, 1871 , that is to say, in cases where the 
property of the person alleged to be of unsound mind and incapable of managing his affairs 
does not exceed two thousand pounds in value or the income therefrom does not exceed one hundred pounds per annum. 
(3) (
a) The Circuit Court shall have and exercise the several jurisdictions which—  
 
 
 (i) were, under or by virtue of any enactment set out in column (2) of the Fourth 
Schedule
 to this Act or any other enactment formerly vested in or capable of 
being exercised by chairmen of quarter sessions, recorders, county court
 
judges, or quarter sessions, and 
(ii) were, immediately before the operative date, vested in or capable of being 
exercised by the existing Circuit Court.
 
(b) The jurisdiction vested in the Circuit Court by paragraph ( a) of this subsection 
under any enactment set out in column (2) of the Fourth Schedule to this Act at a 
particular reference number shall be exercised by the judge of the Circuit Court
 
mentioned in column (3) of the said Schedule at that reference number. 
(c) The Minister may from time to time by order make such provisions (not 
inconsistent with the provisions of paragraph ( b) of this subsection) for the 
exercise by judges of the Circuit Court severally of any jurisdiction vested in the 
Circuit Court by paragraph ( a) of this subsection as are in his opinion necessary or 
proper having regard to the provisions of this Act relating to the Circuit Court and the judges thereof. 
(
d) Every order made by the Minister under paragraph ( c) of this subsection shall, if 
the order so provides, have and be deemed always to have had effect as on and from the operative date. 
(4) (
a) Each British statute mentioned in column (2) of the Fifth Schedule to this Act shall 
have effect subject to the adaptations specified in column (3) of the said Schedule
 
opposite the mention of that statute. 
(b) The Minister may from time to time by order make such adaptations (not 
inconsistent with the adaptations effected by paragraph ( a) of this subsection) in 
any enactment (wherein there is a reference to the former civil bill courts, county courts or courts of quarter sessions, to the former assistant barristers, recorders, county court judges or chairmen of quarter sessions or to former officers of those courts) contained in any British statute or Saorstát Éireann statute as are, in his opinion, necessary or proper having regard to the provisions of this Act relating to the Circuit Court and the judges thereof. 
(
c) Every order made by the Minister under paragraph ( b) of this subsection shall, if 
the order so provides, have and be deemed always to have had effect as on and from the operative date. 
(5) (
a) There shall also be vested in the Circuit Court all jurisdiction which, by virtue of any 
enactment which is applied by section 48 of this Act, was, immediately before the 
operative date, vested in or capable of being exercised by the existing Circuit Court.
  
 
 
 (b) A particular jurisdiction vested in the Circuit Court by paragraph ( a) of this 
subsection shall, in case the exercise of that jurisdiction by the judges of the Circuit 
Court severally is not provided for in an enactment applied by section 48 of this 
Act, be exercised by the judges of the Circuit Court severally in the manner
 
provided by rules of court. 
(6) The Circuit Court, as regards any cause of action for the time being within its 
jurisdiction, shall in any proceedings before it—
 
(a) grant such relief, redress or remedy or combination of remedies, absolute or 
conditional, and
 
(b) give such and the like effect to every ground of defence or counterclaim, legal or 
equitable,
 
as ought to be granted or given in the like case by the High Court and in as full and ample a manner.
 
(7) Without prejudice to any jurisdiction conferred by the previous subsections of this 
section, the Circuit Court shall have powers of attachment, garnishee and interpleader, and
 
shall have all powers (including the power to appoint a receiver) ancillary to any jurisdiction exercisable by it. 
(8) Any party to an action commenced in the Circuit Court and pending therein may at any 
time apply to the judge of the Circuit Court before whom the action is pending to have the
 
action forwarded to the High Court and thereupon, in case the action is one fit to be tried in the High Court and the High Court appears to be the more appropriate tribunal in the circumstances, the said judge may send forward the action to the High Court upon such terms and subject to such conditions as to costs or otherwise as mayappear to him to be just, and an appeal shall lie under section 38 of the Act of 1936, as applied by section 48 of 
this Act, from the decision of the judge granting or refusing any such application.
 
(9) A judge of the Circuit Court may, on the application of any party or on his own motion, 
if he thinks fit, by order change the venue for the trial of any action pending before him from
 
one place of hearing to any other within his circuit, and an appeal shall lie under section 38 of the Act of 1936, as applied by section 48 of this Act, from the decision of the judge of the 
Circuit Court making or refusing to make any such order. 
 
(10) A judge of the Circuit Court may, on the application of any party to an action which has 
been partly heard, transfer the remainder or any portion of the hearing to another venue
 
within his circuit or within the Dublin Circuit, and an appeal shall lie under section 38 of the Act of 1936, as applied by section 48 of this Act, from the decision of the judge granting or 
refusing any such application. 
  
 
 
 
  
 Jurisdiction of 
Cork Circuit Court 
Judge in admiralty 
causes and in 
bankruptcy. (11) A judge of the Circuit Court may, outside his circuit, hear and determine any 
application which he has power to hear and determine within that circuit and which, in his
 
opinion, should be dealt with as a matter of urgency. 
(12) Where— 
(a) an action is pending before a judge of the Circuit Court for the time being assigned to 
a particular circuit, and
 
(b) an application is made by any party to such action for the transfer of such action to 
another circuit for hearing by the judge of the Circuit Court for the time being
 
assigned to such other circuit, 
such first-mentioned judge may, with the consent of such other judge, transfer such action 
accordingly and thereupon such action shall be heard and determined by such other judge,
 
and an appeal shall lie under section 38 of the Act of 1936, as applied by section 48 of this 
Act, from the decision of the first-mentioned judge granting or refusing any such application.
 
(13) A judge of the Circuit Court may adjourn the hearing of any proceedings before him to 
any other court within his circuit.
 
(14) A judge of the Circuit Court may make out of court any orders which he may deem to 
be urgent.
 
(15) ( a) Notwithstanding anything contained in Part IV of the Act of 1936, as applied by 
section 48 of this Act, no appeal shall lie from any decision of the Circuit Court in 
any proceedings in a cause if, before the decision is given, the parties agree, in
 
writing signed by them, that the decision shall be final. 
(b) An agreement under paragraph (a) of this subsection shall not require a stamp. 
23.—(1) In this section—  
“the Cork Circuit” means the circuit of the Circuit Court consisting of the county and county borough of Cork;
 
“the Cork Circuit Court Judge” means the judge of the Circuit Court for the time being assigned to the Cork Circuit.
 
(2) (a) The Cork Circuit Court Judge shall constitute and hold a local admiralty court (in this 
subsection referred to as the Court) to be called the Cork Local Admiralty Court.  
 
 
 
 (b) The Court shall, within the Cork Circuit with the parts of the sea adjacent to it and 
within the outer limit of the territorial seas, within the meaning of the Maritime 
Jurisdiction Act, 1959 , have the jurisdiction in admiralty causes which immediately 
before the commencement of Part II of the Act of 1924 was exercisable by the 
former Recorder of Cork. 
(c) The jurisdiction of the Court shall be exercised by the Cork Circuit Court Judge. 
(d) Section 38 of the Act of 1936, as applied by section 48 of this Act, shall apply to every 
judgment or order of the Court.
 
(3) (a) The Cork Circuit Court Judge shall constitute and hold a local bankruptcy court (in 
this subsection referred to as the Court) to be called the Cork Local Bankruptcy Court. 
(
b) The Court shall, as respects any person residing or having an office or place of 
business in the Cork Circuit who is a debtor or person sought to be adjudged a
 
bankrupt or an arranging debtor, have the like jurisdiction, power and authority in bankruptcy and as to arrangement with creditors and composition after bankruptcy as are for the time being vested in or capable of being exercised by the High Court. 
(
c) The jurisdiction of the Court shall be exercised by the Cork Circuit Court Judge. 
(d) Section 38 of the Act of 1936, as applied by section 48 of this Act, shall apply to 
every judgment or order of the Court.
 
(4) Subsections (6) and (7) of section 22 of this Act shall have effect as if the references 
therein to the Circuit Court included references to the Cork Local Admiralty Court and the
 
Cork Local Bankruptcy Court. 
(5) Subsections (8), (11), (14) and 15 of section 22 of this Act shall apply to proceedings in 
the Cork Local Admiralty Court and in the Cork Local Bankruptcy Court.
 
(6) (a) In this subsection references to section 25 (which relates to the remittal or transfer 
of actions pending in the High Court) of the Act of 1924 are references to that section, as applied by section 48 of this Act and; as amended by section 11 of the 
Act of 1936, as so applied, and by section 13 of the Act of 1953, as so applied. 
 
(b) Section 25 of the Act of 1924 shall apply to admiralty actions pending in the High 
Court which might have been commenced in the Cork Local Admiralty Court, and
 
for that purpose references in the said section to the Circuit Court shall be construed as references to the Cork Local Admiralty Court.  
  
 
 
 
  
  
  
  
 
  
  
   
 Jurisdiction of 
Circuit Court in 
applications for 
new on-licences . 
Jurisdiction of 
Circuit Court in 
indictable 
offences. 
Transfer of trials 
in criminal cases 
by judge of the 
Circuit Court. (c) Section 25 of the Act of 1924 shall apply to bankruptcy proceedings pending in the 
High Court which might have been commenced in the Cork Local Bankruptcy 
Court, and for that purpose references in the said section to the Circuit Court shall be construed as references to the Cork Local Bankruptcy Court. 
24.—(1) In this section “on-licence” has the same meaning as in the Licensing Acts, 1833 to
  
1960. 
(2) The Circuit Court shall have jurisdiction in all cases of applications for new on-licences. 
(3) The jurisdiction conferred on the Circuit Court by this section shall be exercised by the 
judge of the circuit in which the premises in respect of which the new on-licence is sought
 
are situate. 
(4) Where the Circuit Court grants under this section a new on-licence, then, 
notwithstanding anything contained in any enactment, the licence shall not require to be
 
confirmed at any subsequent sitting of the Circuit Court. 
25.—(1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, the Circuit Court shall have and may  
exercise every jurisdiction as respects indictable offences for the time being vested in the 
Central Criminal Court and every person lawfully brought before the Circuit Court in exercise of such jurisdiction may be indicted before and tried and, if convicted, sentenced by the Circuit Court accordingly. 
(2) The jurisdiction conferred on the Circuit Court by subsection (1) of this section shall not 
extend to treason, an offence under section 2 or 3 of the 
Treason Act, 1939 , an offence 
under section 6  , 7 or 8 of the Offences Against the State Act, 1939 , murder, attempt to 
murder, conspiracy to murder, or piracy, including an offence by an accessory before or after 
the fact. 
(3) The jurisdiction vested in the Circuit Court by subsection (1) of this section shall be 
exercised by the judge of the circuit in which the offence charged has been committed or in
 
which the accused person has been arrested or resides. 
(4) In section 6 of the Courts of Justice Act, 1926 , as applied by section 48 of this Act, and in 
subsection (1) of section 14 of the Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1926 , the references to section 
53 of the Act of 1924 shall be construed as references to subsection (3) of this section. 
26.—(1) A judge of the Circuit Court may, if he thinks fit, transfer the trial of a criminal issue  
from the place in his circuit where it is required by law to be held to any other place in that 
circuit, and, in that event, the trial shall be held at the place to which it is transferred with a jury drawn from the jury district or other area prescribed for trials by the Circuit Court sitting in the latter place.   
  
  
 
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
   
   
 
   Jurisdiction to be 
exercised 
pursuant to rules 
of court (Circuit 
Court, Cork Local 
Admiralty Court 
and Cork Local Bankruptcy Court). 
Number of
  
justices of District 
Court. 
Qualifications of  
justices of District 
Court and 
interpretation of 
section 2 of the 
Act of 1949, as 
applied by section 
48 of this Act. (2) An order of a judge of the Circuit Court under subsection (1) of this section— 
(a) may be made only on the application of the Attorney General or an accused person, 
(b) may provide for matters ancillary or incidental to the transfer, and 
(c) shall be final and unappealable. 
27.—(1) The jurisdiction which is by virtue of this Act vested in or exercisable by the Circuit  
Court, the Cork Local Admiralty Court and the Cork Local Bankruptcy Court respectively shall 
be exercised so far as regards pleading, practice and procedure generally, including liability to costs, in the manner provided by rules of court, and where, as regards the jurisdiction of the Cork Local Admiralty Court and the Cork Local Bankruptcy Court, there is no provision in such rules and so long as there is no rule in reference thereto, it shall be exercised as nearly as possible in the same manner as it might have been exercised by the former Recorder of Cork. 
(2) The rule-making authority for the Circuit Court shall also be the rule-making authority 
for the Cork Local Admiralty Court and the Cork Local Bankruptcy Court.
 
PART IV 
District Court 
General Provisions 
28.—The number of justices of the District Court, in addition to the President of the District 
Court, shall not be more than thirty-four. 
29.—(1) ( a) Each of the persons who are justices of the existing District Court immediately 
before the operative date shall be qualified for appointment as a justice of the District Court and, if and so long as there is one or more than one of those persons who is willing to accept office and has not been appointed, no other person shall be qualified for appointment as a justice of the District Court. 
(
b) Paragraph ( a) of this subsection applies only in relation to the qualification for 
appointment of the first justices of the District Court. 
(c) Subsections (2) and (3) of this section shall have effect subject to the preceding 
paragraphs of this subsection.
  
  
  
 
 
 
   Age of retirement 
of justice of 
District Court. 
Pensions of  
justices of District 
Court. (2) A person who is for the time being a practising barrister or solicitor of not less than ten 
years' standing shall be qualified for appointment as a justice of the District Court.
 
(3) A barrister or solicitor who actually practised his profession for not less than ten years 
shall be qualified for appointment as a justice of the District Court if for the time being he
 
holds an office in respect of which it was (at the time of his appointment thereto) required by 
statute that every person appointed thereto should be or should have been— 
(a) a practising solicitor, or 
(b) a practising barrister or solicitor. 
(4) Where a person (being, immediately before the operative date, a justice of the existing 
District Court by virtue of a warrant made under section 2 of the Act of 1949) is appointed a
 
justice of the District Court, he shall, for the purposes of the Act of 1949, as applied by 
section 48 of this Act, be deemed to have been continued in office under the Act of 1949, as 
so applied, for a year commencing on the date on which he attained—
 
(a) if the warrant is the first in respect of him, sixty-five years or 
(b) if the warrant is the second in respect of him, sixty-six years, or 
(c) if the warrant is the third in respect of him, sixty-seven years, or 
(d) if the warrant is the fourth in respect of him, sixty-eight years, or 
(e) if the warrant is the fifth in respect of him, sixty-nine years. 
30.—(1) The age of retirement of a justice of the District Court shall be sixty-five years.  
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, the age of retirement of a justice of the 
District Court who, immediately before the 29th day of July, 1946, was a justice of the existing
 
District Court and as such justice was permanently assigned to the Dublin Metropolitan 
District shall be seventy years. 
(3) The references in section 2 of the Act of 1949, as applied by section 48 of this Act, to 
section 15 (repealed by this Act) of the Act of 1946 shall be construed as references to
 
subsection (1) of this section. 
31.—(1) The provisions set out in Part III of the Second Schedule to this Act shall apply to 
the pensions of justices of the District Court.
 
(2) Where a justice of the District Court is removed from office on account of incapacity, he 
shall be deemed for the purpose of pension to have vacated his office owing to permanent
 
infirmity.  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 District court 
areas and districts 
and assignment of 
justices to 
districts. 
Jurisdiction of  
District Court. 32.—(1) The areas created under section 21 (repealed by this Act) of the Act of 1953 shall 
be the district court areas for the purposes of the District Court. 
(2) The districts created under section 22 (repealed by this Act) of the Act of 1953 and the 
Dublin Metropolitan District shall be the district court districts for the purposes of the District
 
Court. 
(3) The provisions (which relate to the assignment of justices of the District Court to 
districts) set out in the Sixth Schedule to this Act shall have effect. 
33.—(1) There shall be vested in and transferred to the District Court—  
(a) all jurisdiction which, by virtue of sections 77 and 78 of the Act of 1924, was, 
immediately before the operative date, vested in or capable of being exercised by
 
the existing District Court, 
(b) all jurisdiction which, by virtue of any enactment which is applied by section 48 of this 
Act, was, immediately before the operative date, vested in or capable of being
 
exercised by the existing District Court. 
(2) (a) In this subsection— 
“the Act of 1890” means the Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890 , as applied 
to Ireland by subsection (9) of section 12 of that Act and as amended by section 14 
of the Act of 1935; 
“the Act of 1935” means the Public Dance Halls Act, 1935 . 
(b) Section 51 (which relates to music and dancing licences) of the Act of 1890 shall 
have effect as if for the references therein to licensing justices there were
 
substituted references to the District Court. 
(c) The jurisdiction vested in the District Court by this subsection shall be exercised by 
the justice of the District Court for the time being assigned to the district where
 
there is situate the house, room, garden or other place in respect of which the 
licence under section 51 of the Act of 1890 is sought. 
(d) Subsections (2) and (3) of section 2 and section 9 of the Act of 1935 shall have 
effect as if the references therein to a public dancing licence included references to
 
a licence under paragraph 2 of section 51 of the Act of 1890.   
  
   
 
 
  
  
  
  
 Jurisdiction to be 
exercised 
pursuant to rules 
of court (District 
Court). 
Qualification for  
appointment as 
President of the 
District Court and 
assignment. 
General powers  of 
President of the 
District Court. (3) The District Court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine an action for wrongful 
detention (including jurisdiction to make an order for the return of the goods claimed) where
 
the value of the goods claimed does not exceed £50. 
(4) (a) The District Court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine any action 
commenced after the commencement of this Act which is founded on a credit-sale 
agreement (within the meaning of the Hire-Purchase Acts, 1946 and 1960) where the amount of the claim does not exceed one hundred pounds. 
(
b) Paragraph ( a) of section 53 of the Act of 1936 shall not apply to an action— 
(i) in which the defendant or one of the defendants ordinarily resides or carries on 
any profession, business or occupation in the State, and
 
(ii) to which paragraph ( a) of this subsection relates. 
34.—The jurisdiction which is by virtue of this Act vested in or exercisable by the District  
Court shall be exercised as regards pleading, practice and procedure generally, including liability to costs, in the manner provided by rules of court made under section 91 of the Act of 1924, as applied by section 48 of this Act. 
Provisions relating to the President of the District Court and to the Dublin Metropolitan 
District 
35.—(1) ( a) A justice of the District Court shall be qualified for appointment as President of 
the District Court, provided however that a person who is a justice of the existing District Court immediately before the operative date shall be qualified for appointment as first President of the District Court. 
(
b) A person who is qualified for appointment as a justice of the District Court shall be 
qualified for appointment as President of the District Court, other than as first
 
President thereof. 
(2) The President of the District Court shall be permanently assigned by the Government to 
the Dublin Metropolitan District.
 
(3) If the President of the District Court is unable to act during any period, then, during that 
period, the senior of the justices permanently assigned to the Dublin Metropolitan District
 
shall have and exercise the powers of the President under this Act. 
36.—(1) For ensuring the prompt and efficient discharge of the business of the District  
Court in the several districts thereof, the President of the District Court shall have and exercise the powers conferred on him by subsections (2), (3) and (4) of this section.  
  
 
  
 Abolition of 
Divisions of Dublin 
Metropolitan 
Justices. 
Principal Justices  
of the Dublin 
Metropolitan 
District. (2) (a) Where it appears to the President of the District Court that the conduct of a justice 
of the District Court is prejudicial to the prompt and efficient discharge of the 
business of that Court, he shall investigate the matter and may report the result of the investigation to the Minister. 
(
b) In the course of an investigation under this subsection, the President shall consult 
the justice concerned.
 
(3) (a) The President of the District Court may convene meetings of the justices of the 
District Court for the purpose of discussing matters relating to the discharge of the business of that Court, including, in particular, such matters as the avoidance of undue divergences in the exercise by the justices of the jurisdiction of that Court and the general level of fines and other penalties. 
(
b) Such meetings shall not be convened more frequently than twice in one year. 
(c) Every justice shall attend at every such meeting unless unable to do so owing to 
illness or any other unavoidable cause and, where a justice is unable to attend
 
such a meeting, he shall as soon as may be inform the President of the reason therefor. 
(4) The President of the District Court may, whenever he thinks fit, make recommendations 
to the Minister in relation to the following matters:
 
(a) the number of justices of the District Court to be assigned to the Dublin Metropolitan 
District;
 
(b) the places for holding the District Court in or for any district court area; and 
(c) the days and hours for holding the District Court in or for any district court area other 
than the area for the time being comprising the Dublin Metropolitan District.
 
37.—On and from the operative date, the three Divisions of the justices permanently  
assigned to the Dublin Metropolitan District, being the Divisions formed by section 5 (repealed by this Act) of the Act of 1946, shall stand abolished. 
38.—(1) Each person who was nominated under subsection (1) of section 6 (repealed by
  
this Act) of the Act of 1946 to be a Principal Justice of a Division of the Dublin Metropolitan Justices and who is appointed under subsection (1) of section 29 of this Act to be a justice of 
the District Court shall hold the office of Principal Justice of the Dublin Metropolitan District 
 
(to which District such person shall be permanently assigned by the Government) and shall hold that office so long as he holds the office of justice of the District Court.  
  
  
  
   
  
   
 
 
 
  
 Number of 
justices of Dublin 
Metropolitan 
District. 
Places at  which 
business of Dublin 
Metropolitan District is to be 
transacted. 
Number of
  sitting 
days in each week 
for justices 
assigned to Dublin 
Metropolitan 
District. 
Business of  
District Court in 
Dublin Metropolitan District. (2) Where a person who holds the office of Principal Justice of the Dublin Metropolitan 
District ceases to hold that office, that office, in so far as it was held by that person, shall
 
stand abolished. 
39.—On the operative date, the Minister shall, after consultation with the President of the  
District Court, determine the number of justices of the District Court to be permanently 
assigned to the Dublin Metropolitan District and may from time to time, as he shall think fit, after consultation with the said President, alter the number of justices to be so assigned to that District. 
40.—On the operative date, the Minister shall, after consultation with the President of the
  
District Court, appoint the places in the Dublin Metropolitan District for the transaction of the business of the District Court in that District and may from time to time, as he shall think fit, after consultation with the said President, alter the places so appointed. 
41.—The Minister may from time to time, as he shall think fit, after consultation with the
  
President of the District Court, determine the number of days in each week on which the justices of the District Court assigned to the Dublin Metropolitan District shall normally sit in that District for the transaction of the business of the District Court. 
42.—(1) The President of the District Court shall—
  
(a) arrange for the distribution of the business of the District Court in the Dublin 
Metropolitan District amongst the several justices of the District Court assigned to
 
that District, and 
(b) determine the class or classes of business to be transacted in each of the several 
places appointed by the Minister under section 40 of this Act for the transaction of 
the business of the District Court in the Dublin Metropolitan District and the days
 
and hours at which such class or classes of business shall be transacted in the several places so appointed. 
(2) Before arranging for the distribution of any business under paragraph (
a) of subsection 
(1) of this section, the President shall consult with any Principal Justice of the Dublin Metropolitan District.
  
   
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
  Restriction of 43.—Before exercising the power conferred on him by paragraph ( f) of subsection (1) of 
section 26 of Act section 26 of the Act of 1953, as applied by section 48 of this Act, the Minister shall consult 
of 1953. the President of the District Court. 
Ex officio 
members of 
District Court 
Rules Committee. 
Administration of  
justice otherwise 
than in public. 
Provisions in  
relation to 
remuneration and 
pensions of judges 
and justices. 44.—The ex officio members of the District Court Rules Committee established by section 
71 of the Act of 1936, as applied by section 48 of this Act, shall be the President of the District 
Court (who shall be chairman of the Committee) and such one of the district court clerks of
 
the Dublin Metropolitan District as the Minister shall nominate in that behalf, who shall be 
secretary of the Committee. 
PART V 
Miscellaneous Provisions 
45.—(1) Justice may be administered otherwise than in public in any of the following cases:  
(a) applications of an urgent nature for relief by way of habeas corpus, bail, prohibition 
or injunction;
 
(b) matrimonial causes and matters; 
(c) lunacy and minor matters; 
(d) proceedings involving the disclosure of a secret manufacturing process; 
(2) The cases prescribed by subsection (1) of this section shall be in addition to any other 
cases prescribed by any Act of the Oireachtas.
 
(3) Any provision contained in any statute of the Parliament of the former United Kingdom 
or of the Oireachtas of Saorstát Éireann which provided for the administration of justice
 
otherwise than in public and which is not in force solely by reason of its being inconsistent with the provisions of the Constitution of Saorstát Éireann or the Constitution, as the case may be, shall have full force and effect. 
46.—(1) There shall be paid to the several judges of the Supreme Court and of the High
  
Court the following remuneration— 
(a) to the Chief Justice the sum of £5,335 a year, 
(b) to the President of the High Court and to each of the ordinary judges of the Supreme 
Court the sum of £4,070 a year,
 
(c) to each of the ordinary judges of the High Court the sum of £3,575 a year.  
 (2) There shall be paid to the several judges of the Circuit Court the following 
remuneration—
 
(a) to the President of the Circuit Court the sum of £3,575 a year, 
(b) to each of the ordinary judges of the Circuit Court the sum of £2,835 a year. 
(3) There shall be paid to the several justices of the District Court the following 
remuneration—
 
(a) to the President of the District Court the sum of £2,500 a year, 
(b) to each Principal Justice of the Dublin Metropolitan District the sum of £2,215 a year, 
(c) to each other justice of the District Court who is for the time being permanently 
assigned to the Dublin Metropolitan District the sum of £2,070 a year,
 
(d) to the justice of the District Court who is for the time being permanently assigned to 
the district court district which comprises or includes the County Borough of Cork
 
the sum of £2,070 a year, 
(e) to each other justice of the District Court the sum of £1,925 a year. 
(4) There shall be charged on and payable out of the Central Fund or the growing produce 
thereof—
 
(a) the remuneration payable under this Act to a judge of the Supreme Court, the High 
Court or the Circuit Court or a justice of the District Court, and
 
(b) the pension payable under this Act to a judge of the Supreme Court, the High Court, 
the Circuit Court or a justice of the District Court, and
 
(c) the superannuation allowance and additional allowance payable under this Act to a 
justice of the District Court to whom paragraph 9 of the Second Schedule to this 
Act applies, and
 
(d) the gratuity payable under this Act in respect of a justice of the District Court to 
whom paragraph 9 of the Second Schedule to this Act applies. 
(5) Not more than one pension shall be payable under this Act to the same person. 
(6) Where a person in receipt of a pension under this Act is employed in a situation 
remunerated out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas or out of the Central Fund, then—
 
(a) such pension shall not be payable in respect of any period during which the 
remuneration of such person in such situation is equal to or greater than his
 
remuneration in the judicial office in respect of which he is entitled to such 
pension, and  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 Interest on 
judgment debts. 
Application of 
enactments 
relating to existing 
courts and judges 
and officers thereof, and rules 
of court. (b) so much only of such pension shall be payable in respect of any period during which 
the remuneration of such person in such situation is less than his remuneration in 
the said judicial office as with his remuneration in such situation will amount to his remuneration in the said judicial office. 
(7) In the application of subsection (5) of this section to a justice of the District Court to 
whom paragraph 9 of the Second Schedule to this Act applies, references to a pension shall 
be construed as references to a superannuation allowance and to an additional allowance. 
 
(8) In the application of subsection (6) of this section to a justice of the District Court to 
whom paragraph 9 of the Second Schedule to this Act applies, references to a pension shall 
be construed as references to a superannuation allowance.
 
47.—(1) Every judgment debt due upon a judgment of the Circuit Court obtained on or  
after the operative date shall be deemed a judgment debt within the meaning of section 26 (which provides that judgment debts are to carry interest) of the 
Debtors (Ireland) Act, 1840 . 
(2) Section 26 of the Debtors (Ireland) Act, 1840 , and the said section 26, as extended by 
subsection (1) of this section, shall apply to a judgment debt due to or from a State authority. 
48.—(1) ( a) Subject to paragraph ( b) of this subsection, this section applies to the following 
enactments— 
(i) any enactment contained in the Courts of Justice Acts, 1924 to 1961, the Court 
Officers Acts, 1926 to 1961, or the Criminal Justice Act, 1951 , 
(ii) any other enactment wherein there is a reference to a court established by the 
Act of 1924 or to a judge or officer thereof,
 
(iii) any instrument (other than rules of court) which is in force immediately before 
the operative date and was made under any enactment referred to in
 
subparagraph (i) or (ii) of this paragraph. 
(b) This section does not apply to— 
(i) any enactment which has been repealed before the operative date or which is 
repealed by this Act, or
 
(ii) subsection (2) of section 19 and sections 77 and 78 of the Act of 1924. 
(2) In the application of this section in relation to the existing District Court and the District 
Court a reference to a judge shall be construed as a reference to a justice thereof.
  
 (3) Every enactment to which this section applies shall apply to the courts established by 
the Principal Act and to the judges and officers thereof as if it were enacted in this Act, with
 
and subject to— 
(a) the modifications specified in subsection (5) of this section, 
(b) such adaptations and other modifications as may be made by the Minister under 
subsection (6) of this section.
 
(4) Rules of court made under the enactments to which this section applies and in force 
immediately before the operative date shall be deemed to have been made under those
 
enactments, as applied by subsection (3) of this section, and shall have effect accordingly, 
but with and subject to the modifications specified in subsection (5) of this section, and any such rules of court may be altered or annulled as if they had been made under those enactments as so applied. 
(5) The following are the modifications referred to in paragraph (
a) of subsection (3) and in 
subsection (4) of this section— 
(a) a reference to the court mentioned in column (2) of Part I of the Seventh Schedule to 
this Act at a particular reference number shall be construed as a reference to the
 
court mentioned in column (3) of the said Part I at that reference number, 
(b) a reference to a judge of the court mentioned in column (2) of the said Part I at a 
particular reference number shall be construed as a reference to a judge of the
 
court mentioned in column (3) of the said Part I at that reference number, and 
(c) a reference to the judge mentioned in column (2) of Part II of the Seventh Schedule to 
this Act at a particular reference number shall be construed as a reference to the
 
judge mentioned in column (3) of the said Part II at that reference number. 
(6) (a) The Minister may from time to time by order make such adaptations or 
modifications (not inconsistent with the modifications effected by subsection (5) of this section) in or of any enactment to which this section applies as are, in his opinion, necessary and proper in order to give effect to the provisions of this Act. 
(
b) Every order made by the Minister under paragraph ( a) of this subsection shall, 
where the order so provides, have and be deemed always to have had effect as on and from the operative date. 
(7) “This Act” where it occurs in any enactment applied by this section shall, unless the 
context otherwise requires, be construed as referring to the Act which includes that
 
enactment. 
(8) Subsection (1) of section 51 of the Act of 1936, as applied by this section, shall have 
effect as if “ten years' standing” were substituted for “six years' standing”.
  
 
 
 
 
 Act.
1961.”
Preservation of 
continuity of 
administration 
and enforcement of justice. (c) Section 5 of the Act of 1961 shall have effect as if there were inserted at the end of 
subsection (2) “or under section 58 of the Courts (Supplemental Provisions) Act, (b) The reference in subsections (2), (4) and (5) of section 4 of the Act of 1961 to the 
Court Officers Acts, 1926 to 1951, shall be deemed to include a reference to this
 (10) ( a) Paragraph ( a) of subsection (1) of section 2 of the Act of 1961 shall not be taken to 
refer to a person who, immediately before the passing of the Act of 1961, was a 
judge of the existing Supreme Court, High Court or Circuit Court or a justice of the existing District Court and is appointed a judge on the operative date. 
(
d) In this subsection “the Act of 1961” means the Courts of Justice and Court Officers 
(Superannuation) Act, 1961 . (9) Subsection (1) of section 27 of the Act of 1953, as applied by this section, shall have 
effect as if for the reference therein to section 11 (repealed by this Act) of the Act of 1946 
there were substituted a reference to section 40 of this Act. 
49.—(1) The continuity of the administration and enforcement of justice shall not be 
interrupted by the coming into operation of the Principal Act or this Act. 
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) of this section— 
(a) any act done or proceedings taken before the operative date in respect of any cause 
or matter in the court mentioned in column (2) of Part I of the Seventh Schedule to  
this Act at a particular reference number shall be deemed to have been done or 
taken respectively in the court mentioned in column (3) of the said Part I at that
 
reference number, 
(b) any act done or proceedings taken before the operative date in respect of any cause 
or matter before the judge mentioned in column (2) of Part II of the Seventh  
Schedule to this Act at a particular reference number (being reference number 1 or 
2) shall be deemed to have been done in that cause or matter before the judge mentioned in column (3) of the said Part II at that reference number,
 
(c) any act done or proceedings taken before the operative date in respect of any cause 
or matter before the existing Cork Circuit Court Judge exercising jurisdiction in
 
admiralty shall be deemed to have been done or taken in the Cork Local Admiralty Court,  
  
 
 
 
   
  
 Appeals from 
District Court in 
criminal cases 
against sentence 
only. 
Extension of 
section 2 of the 
Summary 
Jurisdiction Act, 
1857. (d) any act done or proceedings taken before the operative date in respect of any cause 
or matter before the existing Cork Circuit Court Judge exercising jurisdiction in
 
bankruptcy shall be deemed to have been done or taken in the Cork Local 
Bankruptcy Court. 
(3) In subsection (2) of this section “the existing Cork Circuit Court Judge” means the judge 
of the existing Circuit Court for the circuit of the existing Circuit Court consisting of the
 
county and county borough of Cork. 
50.—Where—  
(a) an order is made in a criminal case by a justice of the District Court convicting a 
person and sentencing him to pay a penal or other sum or to do anything at any
 
expense or to undergo a term of imprisonment or to be detained in Saint Patrick's Institution, and 
(
b) an appeal is taken against the order, and 
(c) either— 
(i) the notice of appeal states that the appeal is against so much only of the order as 
relates to the sentence, or
 
(ii) the appellant, on the hearing of the appeal, indicates that he desires to appeal 
against so much only of the order as relates to the sentence,
 
then, notwithstanding any rule of law, the Circuit Court shall not, on the hearing of the appeal, re-hear the case except to such extent as shall be necessary to enable the court to
 
adjudicate on the question of sentence. 
51.—(1) Section 2 of the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1857 , is hereby extended so as to 
enable any party to any proceedings whatsoever heard and determined by a justice of the 
District Court (other than proceedings relating to an indictable offence which was not dealt with summarily by the court) if dissatisfied with such determination as being erroneous on a point of law, to apply in writing within fourteen days after such determination to the said justice to state and sign a case setting forth the facts and the grounds of such determination for the opinion thereon of the High Court. 
(2) Upon the making of an application under section 2 of the 
Summary Jurisdiction Act, 
1857 , as extended by subsection (1) of this section, for a case stated, the determination in 
respect of which the application is made shall be suspended—   
 
 
  
  
 
   
  
 
  
  Case stated for 
High Court on 
question of law. 
Application of 
section 26 of Hire-
Purchase 
(Amendment) Act, 
1960. 
Jurisdiction to 
bind to the peace 
or to good 
behaviour. (a) where the justice of the District Court to whom the application is made grants the 
application, until the case stated has been heard and determined, and 
(b) where he refuses to grant the application, until he so refuses. 
(3) The references in sections 6 , 8 , 9 , 10 and 14 of the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1857 , to 
that Act shall be construed as references to that Act as extended by subsection (1) of this 
section. 
(4) In section 2 of the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1857 , and in this section, “party” means 
any person who was entitled to be heard and was heard in the proceedings in which the 
determination in respect of which an application for a case stated is made was given. 
52.—(1) A justice of the District Court shall, if requested by any person who has been  
heard in any proceedings whatsoever before him (other than proceedings relating to an indictable offence which is not being dealt with summarily by the court) unless he consider the request frivolous, and may (without request) refer any question of law arising in such proceedings to the High Court for determination. 
(2) An appeal shall lie by leave of the High Court to the Supreme Court from every 
determination of the High Court on a question of law referred to the High Court under
 
subsection (1) of this section. 
53.— Section 26 of the Hire-Purchase (Amendment) Act, 1960 , shall apply to any action 
pending in the High Court which is founded on a credit-sale agreement (within the meaning 
of the Hire-Purchase Acts, 1946 and 1960). 
54.—The jurisdiction formerly exercisable by justices of the peace to make an order  
binding a person to the peace or to good behaviour or to both the peace and good behaviour and requiring him to enter into a recognizance in that behalf may be exercised by — 
(
a) a judge of the Supreme Court or the High Court, or 
(b) a judge of the Circuit Court within the circuit to which he is for the time being 
assigned, or
 
(c) a justice of the District Court within the district to which he is for the time being 
assigned.
  
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 Offices and 
officers, etc. under 
Court Officers 
Acts, 1926 to 
1951. 55.—(1) The provisions set out in the Eighth Schedule to this Act shall apply in relation to 
offices and officers to be attached to the High Court, the Supreme Court and the President of 
the High Court respectively. 
(2) (a) Every Circuit Court office shall become and be attached to the Circuit Court. 
(b) Every county registrar shall become and be attached to the Circuit Court. 
(c) Every assignment of a county registrar made or deemed to have been made under 
section 10 of the Act of 1945 before the operative date shall, if it is in force
 
immediately before the operative date, continue in force and be deemed to have 
been made under the said section 10, as applied by section 48 of this Act.  
(3) (a) Every district court clerk shall become and be attached to the District Court. 
(b) Every assignment of a district court clerk made under section 48 of the Act of 1926 
before the operative date shall, if it is in force immediately before the operative
 
date, continue in force and be deemed to have been made under the said section 
48 as applied by section 48 of this Act.  
(4) Any requisition made under section 9 of the Act of 1945 before the operative date shall, 
if it is in force immediately before the operative date, continue in force and be deemed to
 
have been made under the said section 9, as applied by section 48 of this Act.  
(5) Any appointment made under section 4 (which relates to deputies for district court  
clerks) of the Court Officers Act, 1951 , before the operative date shall, if it is not terminated 
before the operative date, be deemed to have been made under the said section 4, as 
applied by section 48 of this Act.  
(6) The following provisions shall apply to any person who, immediately before the 
operative date, holds any office, employment or position under the Court Officers Acts, 1926
 
to 1951— 
(a) he shall continue to hold his office, employment or position as if this Act had not 
been passed,
 
(b) nothing in this Act shall affect the terms and conditions on and subject to which he 
held his office, employment or position immediately before the operative date.
 
(7) The business to be transacted in the Circuit Court office for the circuit consisting of the 
county and county borough of Cork, pursuant to section 37 of the Act of 1926, shall include
 
the business of the Cork Local Admiralty Court and the Cork Local Bankruptcy Court, and 
section 65 of the Act of 1936 (which relates to the prescribing of court fees) shall have effect accordingly.   
 
  
  
 Power to continue 
county registrars 
in office after 
reaching age of 
sixty-five years. 56.—(1) ( a) In this section “the Committee” means a committee consisting of— 
(i) the Chief Justice, 
(ii) the President of the High Court, and 
(iii) the Attorney General. 
(b) The Committee may act by a majority of its members and a warrant under this 
section shall be sufficiently authenticated if signed by two members of the
 
Committee. 
(2) Where— 
(a) a county registrar is about to reach the age of sixty-five years, and 
(b) he satisfies the Committee that he is not suffering from any disability which would 
render him unfit to discharge efficiently the duties of his office,
 
the Committee may, if they so think proper after consultation with the Minister, by warrant 
made before such county registrar attains the said age, continue him in office for one year
 
commencing on the date on which he will attain the said age. 
(3) Where— 
(a) a county registrar to whom a warrant under subsection (2) of this section or under 
this subsection relates, or to whom a warrant under this subsection is deemed to
 
relate, is about to reach the age of (as the case may be) sixty-six, sixty-seven, sixty-eight or sixty-nine years, and 
(
b) he satisfies the Committee that he is not suffering from any disability which would 
render him unfit to continue to discharge efficiently the duties of his office,
 
the Committee may, if they so think proper after consultation with the Minister, by warrant made before such county registrar attains the said age, continue him in office for one year
 
commencing on the date on which he will attain the said age. 
(4) Where, immediately before the operative date, there is a county registrar whose age of 
retirement was extended under subsection (6) of section 35 of the Act of 1926, such county
 
registrar shall be deemed to have been continued in office by warrant under subsection (3) of this section and to be a county registrar to whom that subsection relates. 
(5) The provisions of this section shall have effect notwithstanding anything contained in 
subsection (6) of section 35 of the Act of 1926.
   
   
 
 Pension of Master 
of the High Court, 
Taxing-Master and 
county registrar. 57.—(1) Where— 
(a) a person who holds the office of Master of the High Court, Taxing-Master or county 
registrar ceases to hold that office (otherwise than on being removed from that
 
office by the Government on the ground of misconduct or inefficiency) either after 
attaining the age of sixty-five years or upon medical certificate that he is incapable, from infirmity of mind or body, of discharging the duties of that office and that the infirmity is likely to be permanent, and 
(
b) he has completed five or more years of continuous service in one or more of the said 
offices
 
he shall, subject to the provisions of this section, be eligible for a pension consisting of— 
(i) if he has completed twenty or more years of such service, two-thirds of the 
annual remuneration in respect of the office which he ceases to hold, or
 
(ii) if he has not completed twenty years of such service, one-sixth of the annual 
remuneration in respect of the office which he ceases to hold together with
 
one-thirtieth of that remuneration for each (if any) completed year of such service in excess of five. 
(2) Where a person in receipt of a pension under this section is employed in a situation 
remunerated out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas, then
 
(a) the pension shall not be payable in respect of any period during which his 
remuneration in respect of such situation is equal to or greater than the
 
remuneration by reference to which the pension was computed, and 
(b) so much only of the pension shall be payable in respect of any period during which 
his remuneration in respect of such situation is less than the remuneration by
 
reference to which the pension was computed as with his remuneration in respect of such situation will amount to the remuneration by reference to which the pension was computed. 
(3) A reference in this section to service of any person shall be construed as a reference to 
service of such person in respect of which he was remunerated, exclusive of any period
 
during which he was absent on account of illness and was remunerated at a rate determined by reference to the rate which would be appropriate if he were on pension. 
(4) Pensions under this section may be granted by the Minister for Finance.  
  
  
  
   
  
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 Special provisions 
for person who, 
on the operative 
date, holds the 
office of Master of 
the High Court, 
Taxing-Master or 
county registrar. 
Officers of  Cork 
Local Admiralty 
Court and Cork 
Local Bankruptcy 
Court. 58.—(1) Notwithstanding the terms of section 57 of this Act, that section shall not apply in  
relation to a person who, on the operative date, holds the office of Master of the High Court, 
Taxing-Master or county registrar unless and until he elects under this section to accept the
 
provisions of the said section 57. 
(2) A person who, on the operative date, holds the office of Master of the High Court, 
Taxing-Master or county registrar may, by notice in writing sent to the Minister before the
 
expiration of three months after the operative date, elect to accept the provisions of section  
57 of this Act. 
(3) Notwithstanding the repeal by this Act of sections 4 and 5 of the Act of 1945— 
(a) those sections shall continue to have effect in relation to a person who, at the passing 
of the Act of 1945, held the office of Taxing-Master or county registrar and holds
 
such office on the operative date, unless and until such person elects under this 
section to accept the terms of section 57 of this Act;  
(b) section 4 shall continue to have effect in relation to a person who was appointed to 
the office of Master of the High Court, Taxing-Master or county registrar after the
 
passing of the Act of 1945 and holds such office on the operative date, unless and 
until such person elects under this section to accept the terms of section 57  of this 
Act. 
59.—(1) In this section—  
“the existing Cork Circuit Court Judge” means the judge of the existing Circuit Court for the 
circuit of the existing Circuit Court consisting of the county and county borough of Cork; 
“the Cork County Registrar” means the county registrar for the county and county borough of
 
Cork. 
(2) (a) In this subsection “the Court” means the Cork Local Admiralty Court constituted by 
subsection (2) of section 23 of this Act.  
(b) There shall be attached to the Court the following officers— 
(i) a registrar,  
 (ii) a marshal. 
(c) The Cork County Registrar shall be the registrar of the Court. 
(d) The marshal of the Court shall be appointed by the Minister and shall hold office 
on such terms and conditions as the Minister, with the sanction of the Minister for
 
Finance, shall determine. 
(e) The authorities, powers, duties and functions of the registrar of the Court shall 
correspond with those conferred or imposed by statute or rule of court on the
 
officer attached to the High Court who is acting as Admiralty Registrar of the High 
Court. 
(f) The authorities, powers, duties and functions of the marshal of the Court shall 
correspond with those conferred or imposed by statute or rule of court on the
 
officer attached to the High Court who is acting as Admiralty Marshal of the High Court. 
(
g) The person (if any) who, immediately before the operative date, held the office of 
or acted as marshal for the purposes of the jurisdiction in admiralty exercised,
 
immediately before the operative date, by the existing Cork Circuit Court Judge shall, by virtue of this paragraph, become and be marshal of the Court and shall hold that office upon the terms and conditions upon which, immediately before the operative date, he held such first-mentioned office. 
(3) (
a) In this subsection, “the Court” means the Cork Local Bankruptcy Court constituted by 
subsection (3) of section 23 of this Act.  
(b) There shall be attached to the Court the following officers— 
(i) a registrar, 
(ii) an official assignee, 
(iii) a messenger, 
(iv) such other officers (if any) as the Minister, with the concurrence of the Minister 
for Finance, shall determine.
 
(c) The Cork County Registrar shall be the registrar of the Court. 
(d) Each officer of the Court (other than the registrar of the Court) shall be appointed by 
the Minister and shall hold office on such terms and conditions as the Minister,
 
with the sanction of the Minister for Finance, shall determine. 
(e) The authorities, powers, duties and functions of the registrar of the Court shall 
correspond with those conferred or imposed on one of the Examiners or the
 
Examiner (where there is only one Examiner) by subparagraph (2) of paragraph 11 
of the Eighth Schedule to this Act.  
  
  
  
 
 
 
 
  Right of audience 
of solicitors in 
Circuit Court, Cork 
Local Admiralty 
Court and Cork 
Local Bankruptcy 
Court. 
Solicitors and 
commissioners for 
oaths. (f) The authorities, powers, duties and functions of the official assignee of the Court 
shall correspond with those conferred or imposed by statute or rule of court on 
the Official Assignee in Bankruptcy. 
(g) All such and the like property, estate and effects as would vest in the Official 
Assignee in Bankruptcy in the case of proceedings instituted in the High Court shall
 
vest in the official assignee of the Court where proceedings are instituted in the Court, and the enactments regulating and affecting the vesting of any of such property, estate and effects in the Official Assignee in Bankruptcy and the divesting thereof shall also regulate and affect the vesting of the same in the official assignee of the Court and the divesting thereof. 
(
h) The person (if any) who, immediately before the operative date, held the office of 
or acted as official assignee for the purposes of the jurisdiction in bankruptcy
 
exercised immediately before the operative date by the existing Cork Circuit Court Judge shall, by virtue of this paragraph, become and be official assignee of the Court and shall hold that office upon the terms and conditions upon which, immediately before the operative date, he held such first-mentioned office. 
(
i) The rights, powers, duties and obligations of the messenger of the Court shall 
correspond with those conferred or imposed by statute or rule of court on the
 
messenger attached to the Office of the Official Assignee in Bankruptcy. 
(4) In section 9 of the Act of 1945, as applied by section 48 of this Act, the references to a  
court shall be construed as including references to the Cork Local Admiralty Court and the Cork Local Bankruptcy Court.
 
60.—A solicitor who is acting generally for a party in an action, suit, matter or criminal  
proceedings in the Circuit Court, the Cork Local Admiralty Court or the Cork Local Bankruptcy Court and a solicitor qualified to practise (within the meaning of the 
Solicitors Act, 1954 ) who 
is acting as his assistant shall have a right of audience in such Court. 
61.—All persons who, immediately before the operative date, were solicitors of the courts  
mentioned in column (2) of Part I of the Seventh Schedule to this Act and all persons who,  
immediately before the operative date, were commissioners to administer oaths shall on the 
operative date become respectively solicitors of the courts mentioned in column (3) of the
 
said Part I and commissioners to administer oaths. 
FIRST SCHEDULE 
Enactments Repealed  
      
       
       
           
   
    
             
     
       
     
    
    
     
   
       
         
     
     
      
    
     
       
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Session and Chapter or Number Short Title  Extent of  Repeal 
and Year 
(1) (2) (3) 
5 & 6 Vic. c. 24. Dublin Police Act, 1842 . Section 68. 
43 & 44 Vic. c. 39. Lunacy (Ireland)  Act, 1880. The whole  Act. 
6 Edw. 7. c. 37.  Labourers (Ireland)  Act, 1906. In subsection  (1) of section 31, all words 
from “and the Local  Government Board” 
to the end of the subsection. 
No. 10 of  1924. Courts of Justice Act, 1924 . Section 2; in section 3, the definition of 
“Central Criminal  Court”; sections 4, 5, 6, 
7, 8, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17 and 18; 
subsections (1)  and (3) of section 19; in 
section 20,  the words “From and after 
the commencement  of this Act”; sections 
21 and 22; in  section 27, the words 
“From and after the  commencement of 
this Act”; sections  30, 37, 41, 43, 45, 46, 
47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 55, 56 and 57; 
in section  60, all words from “Any 
judgment” to  the end of the section; 
sections 67,  69, 70 and 74; in section 78, 
all words  from “and the provisions” to 
the end of  the section; sections 82, 83, 
89, 93, 98, 99, 100, 102, 103 and 104; the 
Schedule. 
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         No. 27 of 1926. Court Officers Act, 1926 . Subsection (2) of section 1; in section 2, the 
definitions of “the Chief Justice” and 
“court” subsections  (1) and (2) of section 
3; in subsection (6) of section 3, the 
words from “but such age”to the end of 
the subsection; sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 
13, 14, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25 and 26; in 
subsection (1) of section 28, the words 
“the Central Office and”; subsection (2) of 
section 28; section 30; in subsection (6) 
of section 35, from the words “but such 
age” to the end of the subsection; in 
subsection (1) of section 38, the words 
“or, where a local bankruptcy court 
formerly existed, the registrar, or any 
other officer of that court except the 
official assignee”; sections 45, 49 and 50; 
in subsection (1) of section 51, the words 
“after the appointed day” subsection (2) 
of section 51; section 55; subsection (4) 
of section 59; section 62; subsections (1), 
(2), (3), (4) and (6) of section 63; section 
64. 
No. 29 of  1927. Courts of Justice Act, 1927 . The whole Act. 
No. 15 of  1928. Courts of Justice Act, 1928 . In subsection (1) of section 1, the definition 
of “the Chief Justice” subsection (2) of 
section 1; sections 2, 3, 4, 8, 9 , 13, 14, 15 
and 22; the Schedule. 
No. 35 of  1928. Courts of Justice (No.2) Act, 1928 The whole Act. 
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No. 40 of  1931. Courts of Justice (No.2) Act, 1931 The whole Act. 
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         No. 48 of 1936. Courts of Justice Act, 1936 . Sections 3, 4, 5 and 6; subsection (1) of 
section 7; sections 8, 9, 15, 17, 18, 19, 25, 
26, 27 and 28; in subsection (3) of section 
31, the words “, on the commencement 
of this Part of this Act,” and “, as on and 
from such commencement,”; subsection 
(1) of section 33; in subsection (2) of 
section 33, the words “At any time after 
the commencement of this Part of this 
Act,”; sections 45,  48 and 50; subsections 
(2) and (4) of section 51; sections 54 and 
56; paragraph (c) of subsection (3) of 
section 64; the First Schedule. 
No. 25 of  1945. Court Officers Act, 1945 . Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8. 
No. 21 of  1946. Courts of Justice (District Court) 
Act, 1946 . In section 2, all definitions except the 
definitions of “Justice”and “the Minister” 
sections 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 
14, 15, 17, 18, 19 and 22; the Schedule. 
No. 20 of  1947. Courts of Justice Act, 1947 . Sections 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8; subsections (1) 
and (2) of section 9; in subsection (3) of 
section 9, the words “shall be appointed 
from amongst the Circuit Judges by the 
President acting on the advice of the 
Government and” subsection (4) of 
section 9; sections 13, 14, 15, 17, 18 and 
20; the Schedule. 
No. 8 of 1949. Courts of Justice (District Court) 
Act, 1949 . Sections 3 and 4; the Schedule. 
No. 2 of 1951. Criminal Justice Act, 1951 . Sections 19 and 26; the Second Schedule. 
No. 32 of  1953. Courts of Justice Act, 1953 . Sections 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17 and 
18; subsection (1) of section 19; sections 
20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 32; the 
Schedule. 
No. 35 of  1959. Courts of Justice Act, 1959 . The whole Act.     
       
     
 
    No. 15 of 1960. Hire-Purchase (Amendment) Act, Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 
1960 . 19; paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of 
section 19. 
SECOND SCHEDULE 
Pensions of Judges of Courts Established by the Principal Act 
Sections 6 , 19 and 31. 
Part I 
Pensions of Judges of Supreme Court and High Court 
1. In this Part “service” means service as a judge of the Supreme Court, the High Court, the 
Circuit Court, the existing Supreme Court, the existing High Court or the existing Circuit
 
Court. 
2. (1) This paragraph applies to a judge of the Supreme Court or the High Court who— 
(a) was appointed a judge of the existing Supreme Court or the existing High Court after 
the passing of the Act of 1953, or
 
(b) never held office as a judge of the existing Supreme Court or the existing High Court. 
(2) There shall be granted to a judge of the Supreme Court or the High Court to whom this 
paragraph applies and who, having reached the age of sixty-five years, vacates his office
 
after fifteen years' service or upwards a pension for life of two-thirds of his remuneration at 
the time of such vacation of office. 
(3) There shall be granted to a judge of the Supreme Court or the High Court to whom this 
paragraph applies and who, owing to age or permanent infirmity, vacates his office after five
 
years' service or upwards a pension for life of one-sixth of his remuneration at the time of such vacation of office with the addition of one-twentieth of such remuneration for every completed year of service in excess of five, subject to a maximum pension of two-thirds of such remuneration. 
3. (1) This paragraph applies to a judge of the Supreme Court or the High Court who held 
office as a judge of the existing Supreme Court or the existing High Court on the passing of
 
the Act of 1953. 
(2) There shall be granted to a judge of the Supreme Court or the High Court to whom this 
paragraph applies and who vacates his office after fifteen years' service or upwards a
 
pension for life of two-thirds of his remuneration at the time of such vacation of office. (3) There shall be granted to a judge of the Supreme Court or the High Court to whom this 
paragraph applies and who, owing to age or permanent infirmity, vacates his office after five 
years' service or upwards and less than fifteen years' service a pension for life of one-sixth of his remuneration at the time of such vacation of office with the addition of one-twentieth of such remuneration for every completed year of service in excess of five. 
Part II 
Pensions of Judges of Circuit Court 
4. In this Part “service” means service as a judge of the Circuit Court or the existing Circuit 
Court or as a justice of the District Court or the existing District Court.
 
5. (1) This paragraph applies to a judge of the Circuit Court who— 
(a) was appointed a judge of the existing Circuit Court after the passing of the Act of 
1953, or
 
(b) never held office as a judge of the existing Circuit Court. 
(2) There shall be granted to a judge of the Circuit Court to whom this paragraph applies 
and who, having reached the age of sixty-five years, vacates his office after fifteen years'
 
service or upwards a pension for life of two-thirds of his remuneration at the time of such vacation of office. 
(3) There shall be granted to a judge of the Circuit Court to whom this paragraph applies 
and who, owing to age or permanent infirmity, vacates his office after five years' service or
 
upwards a pension for life of one-sixth of his remuneration at the time of such vacation of office with the addition of one-twentieth of such remuneration for every completed year of service in excess of five, subject to a maximum pension of two-thirds of such remuneration. 
6. (1) This paragraph applies to a judge of the Circuit Court who held office as a judge of 
the existing Circuit Court on the passing of the Act of 1953.
 
(2) There shall be granted to a judge of the Circuit Court to whom this paragraph applies 
and who vacates his office after fifteen years' service or upwards a pension for life of two-thirds of his remuneration at the time of such vacation of office.
 
(3) There shall be granted to a judge of the Circuit Court to whom this paragraph applies 
and who, owing to age or permanent infirmity, vacates his office after five years' service or
 
upwards and less than fifteen years' service a pension for life of one-sixth of his remuneration at the time of such vacation of office with the addition of one-twentieth of such remuneration for every completed year of service in excess of five. 
Part III 
Pensions of Justices of District Court  
 7. In this Part— 
“justice”, where used without qualification, means a justice of the District Court; 
“service”, in relation to a justice, means any service by him, being— 
(a) service as a District Justice under the District Justices (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1923 
, 
(b) service as a justice of the existing District Court, 
(c) service as an additional justice, appointed under section 13 of the Courts of Justice Act, 
1928 , of the existing District Court, or 
(d) service as a justice; 
“the Superannuation Acts” means the Superannuation Act, 1834 , as amended and extended 
by subsequent enactments, other than the Superannuation Act, 1956 . 
8. (1) This paragraph applies to a justice who— 
(a) was appointed a justice of the existing District Court on or after the passing of the Act 
of 1936, or
 
(b) never held office as a justice of the existing District Court. 
(2) There shall be granted to a justice to whom this paragraph applies and who, having 
reached the age of sixty-five years, vacates his office after twenty years' service or upwards a
 
pension for life of two-thirds of his remuneration at the time of such vacation of office. 
(3) There shall be granted to a justice to whom this paragraph applies and who, owing to 
age or permanent infirmity, vacates his office after five years' service or upwards a pension
 
for life of one-sixth of his remuneration at the time of such vacation of office with the 
addition of one-thirtieth of such remuneration for every completed year of service in excess of five, subject to a maximum pension of two-thirds of such remuneration. 
9. (1) This paragraph applies to a justice who held office as a justice of the existing District 
Court on the passing of the Act of 1936.
 
(2) Unless and until he makes the election provided for in subparagraph (3) of this 
paragraph, the following provisions shall apply to a justice to whom this paragraph applies,
 
namely, his office shall be a pensionable office within the meaning of the Superannuation Acts, and the superannuation allowance, additional allowance or gratuity granted to or in respect of him on the vacation of his office shall be ascertained in the manner and subject to the conditions prescribed by those Acts, and a certificate by the Chief Justice shall be a 
sufficient certificate for the purposes of section 8 of the 
Superannuation Act, 1859 .    
    
   
      
    
       
    (3) A justice to whom this paragraph applies may, by notice in writing sent to the Minister 
for Finance at any time before he vacates his office, elect to accept the pension terms 
provided by this subparagraph, and in that case the following provisions shall apply to him— 
(a) there shall be granted to him, if he vacates his office after thirty years' service or 
upwards, a pension for life of two-thirds of his remuneration at the time of such
 
vacation of office; 
(b) there shall be granted to him, if, owing to age or permanent infirmity, he vacates his 
office after ten years' service or upwards and less than thirty years' service, a
 
pension for life of one-sixth of his remuneration at the time of such vacation of office with the addition of one-fortieth of such remuneration for every completed year of service in excess of ten. 
10. Where— 
(
a) a justice, having completed ten years' service or upwards, vacates his office with the 
consent of the Government, and
 
(b) such justice is not entitled under paragraphs 8 or 9 of this Schedule to a pension in 
respect of his service,
 
he shall be entitled to a pension for life of one-sixth of his remuneration at the time of such vacation of office with the addition of one-fortieth of such remuneration for every completed
 
year of service in excess of ten, subject to a maximum pension of two-thirds of such remuneration. 
THIRD SCHEDULE 
Civil Proceedings In Respect Of Which The Jurisdiction Of The High Court Is, With Quantitative 
Limitations, Conferred On The Circuit Court, And Judges Of The Circuit Court By Whom The
 
Jurisdiction Is To Be Exercised 
Section 22 (1) . 
Ref.No Civil proceedings  in respect of Exclusion of  jurisdiction (except Judge of Circuit Court by whom 
which jurisdiction  is conferred by consent  of necessary parties) jurisdiction is  to be exercised 
on the Circuit Court in certain  cases 
(1) (2)  (3) (4)      
  
     
     
        
      
   
   
    
    
  
     
  
   
     
   
   
        
  
     
     
  
   
     
     
   
  
   
    
       
 
      
   
  
    
   
     
   
     
    
  
     
       
  
    
     
   
    
   
     
    
        
   
  
    
   
     
   
   
   
 1. An action  (other than an action Where the amount of the claim At the election of the plaintiff 
of the kind specified in exceeds £600. (whether the  claim be to 
column (2)  of this Schedule at enforce, rescind,  dissolve or 
reference number  3, 4 or 5) annul the  contract or for 
founded on contract  or quasi- damages or  other relief for 
contract. the breach  thereof)— 
2. An action  (other than an action Where the amount of the 
of the kind specified in balance claimed exceeds (a) the judge of the circuit 
within which the 
column (2)  of this Schedule at £600. contract was  made, or 
reference number  3, 4 or 5) 
founded on contract where 
the debt or demand claimed 
consists of a balance after a 
set-off of any debt or demand 
claimed or recoverable by the (b) the judge of the circuit 
where the defendant or 
one of the defendants 
resides or carries on 
business. 
defendant from the  plaintiff, 
being a set-off admitted by 
the plaintiff  in the particulars 
of his claim or demand. 
3. An action  by the owner of goods Where the hire-purchase price 
let under a hire-purchase (within the meaning of the In case the defendant or one of 
the defendants ordinarily 
agreement (within  the said Acts) exceeds £l,000. resides or  carries on business 
meaning of  the Hire -Where the  amount of the claim 
Purchase Acts, 1946 and exceeds £1,000. 
1960) to enforce a right to in the State—the judge of the 
circuit where the defendant 
or one of the defendants 
recover possession  of the resides or  carries on 
goods from the  hirer. business. 
4. An action  by the owner of goods 
let under a hire-purchase In any other case—the judge of 
the circuit within which the 
agreement (within  the hire-purchase agreement  was 
meaning of  the Hire - made. 
Purchase Acts,  1946 and 
1960) to  enforce payment of a 
sum due under  the hire-
purchase agreement  or under 
any contract  of guarantee 
relating thereto.     
   
  
   
   
       
       
  
    
     
   
    
   
     
    
  
     
   
 
   
   
      
      
     
    
   
     
   
   
           
 
      
  
        
       
     
 5. An action  commenced after the 
commencement of the Act 
founded on a credit-sale 
agree ment (within the 
meaning of the Hire-Purchase 
Acts, 1946 and 1960). 
An action  (other than an action 6. 
for wrongful  detention or 
matrimonial proceedings) 
founded on tort (other than 
criminal conversation with a 
man's wife). 
An action  for wrongful 7. 
detention. 
An action  in which the title to 8. 
land comes into  question, 
other than an action of 
ejectment. Where the  amount of the claim 
exceeds £1,000. 
Where the  amount of the claim 
exceeds £600. 
Where the  value of the goods 
claimed exceeds £600. 
Where the  rateable valuation of 
the land exceeds £60. In case the defendant or one of 
the defendants ordinarily 
resides or carries on business 
in the State—the judge of the 
circuit where the defendant 
or one of the defendants 
resides or carries on 
business. 
In any other case—the judge of 
the circuit within which the 
credit-sale agreement was 
made. 
At the election of the plaintiff— 
(a) the judge  of the circuit 
where the tort is alleged 
to have been committed, 
or 
(b) the judge  of the circuit 
where the defendant or 
one of the defendants 
resides or carries on 
business. 
The judge  of the circuit where 
the land or any part of the 
land is situate.     
   
    
  
    
    
 
 
 
 
  
 
    
     
 
    
 
     
   
   
     
      
       
    
     
     
     
   
     
      
 
    
  
   
     
          
     
 9. An action of ejectment other 
than— 
(a) an action  under 
section 82  of the Civil 
Bill Courts (Ireland) 
Act, 1851 , or under 
section 78 of 80 of 
the Landlord and 
Tenant Law 
Amendment Act, 
Ireland, 1860 
(hereinafter in this 
Schedule referred to 
as the Act of 1860), 
or 
(b) an action  of the kind 
specified in column 
(2) of this Schedule at 
reference number 
10. 
An action  of ejectment for a Where the rateable valuation of 10. The judge  of the circuit where 
year's rent in arrear the land exceeds £60. 
the land in respect of which 
maintainable in the High 
the rent in arrear is payable 
Court under section 52 of the 
or any part of that land is 
Act of 1860. 
situate. 
An action  for rent in arrear Where the rent in arrear 11. 
maintainable
 in the High exceeds £600. 
Court under section 45 of the 
Act of 1860. 
An action  for use and 12. Where the  amount claimed The judge of the circuit where 
occupation of land 
exceeds£600. the land or any part of the 
maintainable in the High 
land is situate.  
Court under section 46 of the 
Act of 1860.      
 
   
     
  
     
   
  
 
    
   
     
    
   
     
   
  
      
      
     
   
 
  
     
    
     
    
      
       
     
 
      
     
     
   
   
    
       
      
 
  
   
  
  
   
   
 
 
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overhold-ing land 
maintainable in the High 
Court under section 76 of the 
Act of 1860. 
An action  to recover double the 14. 
value of goods fraudulently 
carried off or concealed or 
clandestinely removed to 
prevent distress for arrears of 
rent and maintainable in the 
High Court under section 3 of 
the pre-Union Irish statute 15 
Geo. 2. c. 8 (Ir.) (1741) entitled 
“An Act for the more effectual 
securing the payment of 
rents, and preventing frauds 
by tenants”. 
An application  under—( a) 15. 
section 34  or 52 of the 
Registration of Title Act, 1891, 
or (b) section 13 of the 
Registration of Title Act, 1942 
(No. 26 of 1942). 
An action  in respect of the grant 16. 
or revocation  of the grant of 
probate of the will or letters 
of administration of the 
estate of a deceased person 
in case there is any 
contention in relation thereto. Where the value of the goods 
removed exceeds £300. 
Where the rateable valuation of 
the land exceeds £60. 
Where the estate of the 
deceased person— 
(a) in so far as it consists 
of personalty, 
exceeded at the time 
of his death in 
amount or value 
£2,000, exclusive of 
what he may have 
been entitled to as a 
trustee and not 
beneficially, but 
without deducting The judge of the circuit where 
the defendant or one of the 
defendants resides or carries 
on business. 
The judge of the Circuit where 
the land or any part of the 
land is situate.   
   
 
 
      
   
     
 
 
    
   
       
    
      
  
   
    
      
      
 
  
   
      
   
       
     
  
   
 
     
   
   
   
    
 
   
  
    
   
   
  
   
  
      
       
     
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administration of the estate 
of a deceased person. 
Proceedings for  the dissolution 18. 
of a partnership or the taking 
of partnership or other 
accounts. 
Proceedings for  any of the 19. 
following purposes—  
(a) the redemption  of 
mortgages on land, 
(b) the raising  of portions 
or other charges on 
land, 
(c) the sale and 
distribution of the 
proceeds of any land 
subject to any 
mortgage, lien or 
charge. anything on  account 
of debts due and 
owing from the 
deceased, or 
(b) in so far as it consisted 
of land of which he 
was at the time of his 
death beneficially 
seised or possessed, 
exceeded the 
rateable valuation of 
£60. 
Where the  property of the 
partnership— 
(a) in so far as it consists 
of personalty, 
exceeds in amount 
or value £2,000, or 
(b) in so far as it consists 
of land, exceeds the 
rateable valuation of 
£60. 
Where the  rateable valuation of 
the land exceeds £60. The judge  of the circuit where 
the testator or intestate had 
at the time of his death a 
fixed place of abode. 
At the election of the plaintiff— 
(a) the judge  of the circuit 
where the partnership 
business was or is 
carried on, or 
(b) the judge  of the circuit 
where the defendant or 
one of the defendants 
resides or carries on 
business. 
The judge  of the circuit where 
the land or any part of the 
land is situate.     
        
      
  
  
 
      
    
  
       
     
   
 
   
   
    
    
       
  
  
 
       
  
     
  
    
   
    
   
   
      
     
     
   
   
   
 
     
   
     
  
    
      
       
     
 20. Proceedings for  the execution of 
trusts, charitable or private. 
Proceedings for  the rectification 21. 
or setting  aside or 
cancellation of deeds or other 
written instruments. 
Proeedings for  specific 22. 
performance of  contrats. 
Proceedings for  the partition or 23. 
sale of land. Where— 
(a) the trust  estate or fund, 
in so far as it consists of 
personalty, exceeds in 
amount or value 
£2,000, or 
(b) the trust  estate, in so far 
as it consists of land, 
exceeds the rateable 
valuation of £60. 
Where the  subject matter— 
(a) in so far as it consists of 
personalty, exceeds in 
amount or value 
£2,000, or 
(b) in so far as it consists of 
land, exceeds the 
rateable valuation of 
£60. 
Where the  rateable valuation of 
the land exceeds £60. The judge  of the circuit where 
the defendant or one of the 
defendants resides or carries 
on business. 
Where the  subject matter 
consists entirely of 
personalty, the judge of the 
circuit where the defendant 
or one of the defendants 
resides or carries on 
business. 
Where the  subject matter 
consists in whole or in part of 
land, at the option of the 
plaintiff— 
(a) the judge  of the circuit 
where the defendant or 
one of the defendants 
resides or carries on 
business, or 
(b) the judge  of the circuit 
where the land or any 
part of the land is 
situate. 
The judge  of the circuit where 
the land or any part of the 
land is situate.    
   
   
       
  
  
 
       
  
       
     
 
   
     
       
  
  
   
  
       
  
       
   
  
     
 
   
    
     
    
    
    
       
  
  
 
       
  
       
     
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infants and the  care of 
infants' estates. 
Proceedings under  the Settled 25. 
Land Acts, 1882  to 1890. 
Proceedings under  the Trustee 26. 
Acts, namely, the Trustee Act, 
1893 , the Trustee Act, 1893, 
Amendment Act, 1894 , and 
the Trustee Act, 1931 (No. 20 
of 1931). Where the property— 
(a) in so far as it consists of 
personalty, exceeds in 
amount or value 
£2,000, or 
(b) in so far as it consists of 
land, exceeds the 
rateable valuation of 
£60. 
Where the  property— 
(a) in so far as it consists of 
capital money arising 
under the said Acts, 
exceeds in amount or 
value £2,000, or 
(b) in so far as it consists of 
land, exceeds the 
rateable valuation of 
£60. 
Where the trust property— 
(a) in so far as it consists of 
personalty, exceeds in 
amount or value 
£2,000, or 
(b) in so far as it consists of 
land, exceeds the 
rateable valuation of 
£60. The judge of the circuit where 
the infant or one of the 
infants resides. 
The judge  of the circuit where 
the land or the land 
(represented by the capital 
money) or any part of the 
land is situate. 
The judge of the circuit where 
the applicant or one of the 
applicants resides.     
  
   
     
       
  
  
 
       
  
     
    
    
    
   
  
    
    
     
   
   
   
 
     
   
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property) claiming an 
injunction, otherwise than as 
ancillary to other relief. Where the  property— 
(a) in so far as it consists of 
personalty, exceeds in 
amount or value 
£2,000, or 
(b) in so far as it consists of 
land, exceeds the 
rateable valuation of 
£60. Where the  property consists 
only of personalty, the judge 
of the circuit where the 
defendant or one of the 
defendants resides or carries 
on business. Where the 
property consists of land, at 
the option of the plaintiff— 
(a) the judge  of the circuit 
where the defendant or 
one of the defendants 
resides or carries on 
business, or 
(b) the judge  of the circuit 
where the land or any 
part of the land is 
situate.    
  
   
   
    
     
   
  
    
    
  
     
       
  
  
 
       
  
       
     
    
    
  
     
  
     
     
  
   
 
     
   
   
     
  
    
   
   28. Proceedings in relation to 
property not hereinbefore 
specified in this Schedule and 
which immediately before the 
commencement of Part I of 
the Courts of Justice Act, 1924 
(No. 10 of 1924), were 
assigned to the Chancery 
Division of the former High 
Court of Justice in Southern 
Ireland, other than 
proceedings in relation to 
companies. Where the  property— 
(a) in so far as it consists of 
personalty, exceeds in 
amount or value 
£2,000, or 
(b) in so far as it consists of 
land, exceeds the 
rateable valuation of 
£60. Where the  proceedings are in a 
cause, the judge of the circuit 
where the defendant or one 
of the defendants resides or 
carries on business. 
Where the  proceedings are in a 
matter and any land is 
involved, at the option of the 
applicant— 
(a) the judge  of the circuit 
where the applicant 
resides or carries on 
business, or 
(b) the judge  of the circuit 
where the land or any 
part of the land is 
situate. 
Where the  proceedings are in a 
matter, and no land is 
involved, the judge of the 
circuit where the applicant 
resides or carries on 
business.   
   
 
    
   
    
  
    
   
     
    
   
    
   
    
        
       
     
   
 
  
    
     
             
 
      
          
     
  
      
        
       
          
    
       
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proceedings under the Gárda recoverable exceeds £600. the defendant or one of the 
Síochána (Compensation) defendants resides or carries 
Acts, 1941 and 1945) by any on business. 
person, including a State 
authority, to recover any sum 
(including a sum recoverable 
by way of debt, penalty, 
forfeiture or otherwise, but 
excluding a fine to which a 
person is liable on conviction 
of a criminal offence) 
recoverable by virtue of any 
enactment, other than an 
enactment set out in the 
Fourth Schedule  to this Act. 
FOURTH SCHEDULE 
Jurisdiction of the Circuit Court under certain British statutes and Saorstát éireann statutes, 
and judges of the Circuit Court by whom the jurisdiction is to be exercised
 
Section 22 (3). 
Ref. No. Enactments  conferring jurisdiction on former Judge of Circuit Court by whom jurisdiction is to 
Recorders, County Court Judges, Chairmen of be exercised 
Quarter Sessions, or Courts of Quarter Sessions 
(1) (2)  (3) 
Excise Management Act, 1827 (7 and 8 Geo. 4. c. The judge of the circuit in which is situate the 1. 
53)—section 82. courthouse in which the judgment appealed 
against was given. 
Grand Jury (Ireland) Act, 1836 (6 & 7 Will. 4. c. The judge of the circuit where the defendant 2. 
116)— resides. 
section 87. 
3. Poor Relief (Ireland) Act, 1838 (1 & 2 Vic. c. 56)— 
sections 73 and 78. The judge of the circuit where the person liable 
to pay the rate resides. 
4. Poor Relief (Ireland) Act, 1838 (1 & 2 Vic. c. 56)— 
sections 106 to 109 and section 112. The judge of the circuit where the rate was 
made.       
          
     
  
     
         
     
       
          
       
        
      
         
     
    
    
        
    
      
         
     
      
     
               
      
          
       
    
   
   
        
      
        
       
        
   5. Drainage (Ireland) Act, 1842 (5 & 6 Vic. c. 89)— 
section 58. 
Scientific Societies Act,  1843 (6 & 7 Vic. c. 36)— 6. 
sections
 5 and 6. 
Poor Relief (Ireland) Act, 1843 (6 & 7 Vic. c. 92)— 7. 
sections 2 and 3. 
County Dublin Grand Jury Act, 1844 (7 & 8 Vic. c. 8. 
106)— 
section 110. 
Drainage (Ireland) Act, 1846 (9 & 10 Vic. c. 4)— 9. 
section 42  (so far as the section relates to the 
recovery of costs and expenses of cleaning, 
scouring out and removal of accumulated 
matter from aqueducts, culverts or tunnels 
under canals). 
Drainage (Ireland)  Act, 1846 (9 & 10 Vic. c. 4)— 10. 
section 42  (so far as the section relates to the 
recovery by the Commissioners of Public 
Works in Ireland of the costs and expenses of 
altering aqueducts, culverts, or tunnels under 
canals so as to prevent injury to lands). 
Ejectment and Distress (Ireland) Act, 1846 (9 & 10 11. 
Vic. c. 111)— 
section 8. 
Landed Property Improvement (Ireland) Act, 12. 
1847 (10  & 11 Vic. c. 32)— 
section 40. 
Eviction (Ireland) Act, 1848 (11 & 12 Vic. c. 47)— 13. 
section 6. 
Poor Relief (Ireland) Act, 1849 (12 & 13 Vic. c. 104) 14. 
— 
section 29. The judge of the circuit where any part of the 
drain, stream or rivulet required to be cleaned 
or scoured is situate. 
The judge of the circuit where the land or 
buildings of the society are situate. 
The judge of the circuit where the property is 
situate. 
The judge of the circuit where the defendant 
resides. 
The judge of the circuit where the aqueduct, 
culvert or tunnel is situate. 
The judge  of the circuit where the lands are 
situate. 
The judge of the circuit in which is situate the 
courthouse in which the order or decree for 
recovery of possession was made. 
The judge of the circuit where the defendant 
resides. 
The judge of the circuit where the defendant 
resides. 
The judge of the Circuit Court before whom the 
legal proceedings are pending.         
          
  
        
         
   
        
         
      
            
     
      
        
          
    
      
        
        
     
      
      
       
  
       
  
       
         
     
      
 
          
 
     
 
         
     
      
        19 15. Civil Bill Courts (Ireland) Act, 1851 (14 & 15 Vic. c. 
57)—proviso to section 35. 
Civil Bill Courts (Ireland) Act, 1851 (14 & 15 Vic. c. 16. 
57)— 
sections 38 and 39. 
Civil Bill Courts (Ireland) Act, 1851 (14 & 15 Vic. c. 17. 
57)— 
section 82. 
Valuation (Ireland) Act, 1852 (15 & 16 Vic. c. 63)— 18. 
sections 16, 22, 23 and 31. 
Succession Duty Act, 1853 (16 & 17 Vic. c. 51)— 
section 50. 
Boundary Survey (Ireland) Act, 1854 (17 & 18 Vic. 20. 
c. 17)— 
section 9. 
Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854 (17 and 21. 
18 Vic. c. 103)— 
section 41. 
Literary and Scientific Institutions Act, 1854 (17 & 22. 
18 Vic. c. 112)— 
sections 29 and 30. The judge of the Circuit Court before whom the 
case is heard and determined. 
The judge of the circuit where the land 
distrained or threatened to be distrained is 
situate. 
The judge of the circuit where the land is situate. 
The judge of the circuit where the tenement or 
rateable hereditament is situate; or, in the 
case of an incorporeal hereditament, the j 
udge of the circuit where the property or any 
part of the property to, out of or in respect of 
which the incorporeal hereditament is 
annexed, arises, issues or is exercisable is 
situate; or, in the case of a half-rent, the judge 
of the circuit where the property in respect of 
which the half-rent is determined is situate. 
At the election of the appellant— 
(a) the judge  of the circuit where the 
appellant resides, or 
(b) the judge  of the circuit where the 
property is situate. 
The judge of the circuit where the boundary line 
or any part thereof is situate. 
The judge of the circuit where the works to be 
constructed are situate. 
The judge of the circuit where the principal 
building of the institution is situate. 
Drainage (Ireland) Act, 1856 (19 & 20 Vic. c. 62)— The judge of the circuit where the defendant 23. 
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  24. Boundary Survey (Ireland) Act, 1857 (20 & 21 Vic. The judge of the circuit where the boundary line 
c. 45)— or  any part thereof is situate. 
section 5. 
Landlord and Tenant Law Amendment Act, At the election of the landlord— 25. 
Ireland, 1860 (23 & 24 Vic. c. 154) (hereinafter (a) the judge  of the circuit where the tenant 
in this Schedule referred to as the Act of 1860) resides, or  
— 
(b) the judge  of the circuit where the land or 
sections 30  and 31. any part  of the land is situate. 
The Act of 1860— The judge of the circuit where the land or any 26. 
part of the land is situate. sections 32  and 33. 
The Act of 1860— The judge of the circuit where the land in 27 
relation to  which the precept, order or section 37.  
conviction was  made is situate. 
The Act of 1860— The judge of the circuit where the defendant 28. 
resides. section 38.  
The Act of 1860— The judge of the circuit where the land or any 29 
part of the land is situate. sections 61,  63, 71, 78, 80, 82 and 95. 
Valuation (Ireland) Act, 1864 (27 & 28 Vic. c. 52)— The judge of the circuit where the tenement or 30. 
rateable hereditament  is situate; or, in the sections 1  and 3. 
case of an incorporeal hereditament, the 
judge of the circuit where the property or any 
part of the property to, out of or in respect of 
which the incorporeal hereditament is 
annexed, arises, issues or is exercisable is 
situate; or, in the case of a half-rent, the judge 
of the circuit where the property in respect of 
which the half-rent is determined is situate. 
Attorneys' and Solicitors' Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vic. c. At the option of the person seeking to enforce or 31. 
28)— set aside the agreement— 
section 8. (a) the judge of the circuit where the other 
party to the agreement resides, or 
(b) the judge  of the circuit where the 
agreement was made.      
        
      
     
             
       
       
    
   
         
      
 
          
      
      
           
        
     
      
          
      
         
  
      
         
     
  
         
  
      
          
      
         
  32. Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act, 1870 (33 & 34 
Vic. c. 46)— 
Part I. 
Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act, 1870 (33 & 34 33. 
Vic. c. 46)—sections 42, 43, 44, 47 and 56. 
Charitable Donations and Bequests (Ireland) Act, 34. 
1871 (34  & 35 Vic. c. 102)— 
sections 8 and 16. 
Bankruptcy (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1872 (35 & 35. 
36 Vic. c. 58)—  
sections 81 and 82. 
Building Societies Act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vic. c. 42)— 36. 
sections
 24, 34, 35 and 36. 
Hosiery Manufacture  (Wages) Act, 1874 (37 & 38 37. 
Vic. c. 48)— 
sections
 3 and 4. 
Employers and Workmen Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vic. 38. 
c. 90)— 
sections 3 and 8. 
Rivers Pollution Prevention Act, 1876 (39 & 40 39. 
Vic. c. 75)— 
section
 10. 
County Officers and Courts (Ireland) Act, 1877 40. 
(40 & 41 Vic. c. 56)— 
sections 41 and 47. 
Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vic. c. 41. 
52)— 
sections 120, 122 and 260. 
Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vic. c. 42. 
52)— 
section 269. The judge of the circuit where the matter 
requiring the cognizance of the Court arises. 
The judge of the circuit where the holding in 
respect of which the charging order is sought 
or any part of that holding is situate. 
The judge of the circuit where the defendant 
resides. 
The judge  of the circuit where the debtor had a 
fixed abode at the time of adjudication of 
bankruptcy. 
The judge  of the circuit where the building 
society has its chief office or place of meeting 
for the business of the society. 
The judge  of the circuit where the offence was 
committed. 
The judge of the Circuit Court before whom the 
proceedings are pending. 
The judge of the circuit where the offence was 
committed. 
The judge of the Circuit Court before whom the 
proceedings are pending. 
The judge of the circuit where the defendant 
resides. 
The judge of the circuit where the cause of 
appeal has arisen.        
        
  
     
          
              
    
           
      
 
         
      
      
 
       
       
     
       
 
      
 
        
     
     
       
       
  
       
      
  
      
         
      
          
     43. Bankers' Books Evidence Act, 1879 (42 & 43 Vic. 
c. 11)— 
section 10.  
Inland Revenue Act, 1880 (43 & 44 Vic. c. 20)— 44. 
section 43 (7). 
Guardianship of Infants Act, 1886 (49 & 50 Vic. c. 45. 
27). 
Partnership Act, 1890 (53 & 54 Vic. c. 39). 46. 
Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890 (53 & 47. 
54 Vic. c. 59)— 
section 7 (1). 
Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1893 (56 & 48. 
57 Vic. c. 39)— 
sections 23 and 48. 
Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1893 (56 & 49. 
57 Vic. c. 39)— 
section 49. 
Finance Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vic. c. 30)— 50. 
section 10 (5). 
Friendly Societies Act, 1896 (59 & 60 Vic. c. 25)— 51. 
sections 31 and 55. 
Friendly Societies Act, 1896 (59 & 60 Vic. c. 25)— 52. 
sections 68, 70 and 78. The judge of the Circuit Court before whom the 
proceedings are pending. 
The judge of the circuit where the premises are 
situate. 
The judge of the circuit where the respondent or 
any of the respondents resides. 
The judge of the circuit where the defendant 
resides. 
The judge of the circuit where the functional 
area of the local authority is situate. 
At the option of the society— 
(a) the judge  of the circuit where the 
registered office of the society is situate, 
or 
(b) the judge  of the circuit where the 
defendant resides. 
The judge of the circuit where the registered 
office of the society is situate. 
At the option of the appellant— 
(a) the judge  of the circuit where the 
appellant resides, or 
(b) the judge  of the circuit where the 
property in respect of which the dispute 
arises is situate. 
The judge of the circuit where the defendant 
resides. 
The judge of the circuit where the registered 
office of the society is situate.       
  
      
       
       
        
 
        
        
       
         
    
      
      
          
      
         
     
          
      
     
        
    
     
         
     
     
     
            
  53. Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898 (61 & 62 
Vic. c. 37)— 
section 5. 
Small Dwellings Acquisition Act, 1899 (62 & 63 54. 
Vic. c. 44)— 
section 5  (2) and (5), as applied to Ireland by 
section 14 (2). 
Alkali, Etc. Works  Regulation Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7. 55. 
c. 14)— 
section 17.  
Open Spaces Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7. c. 25)— 56. 
section 4. 
Labourers (Ireland) Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7. c. 37)— 57. 
section 6. 
Labourers (Ireland)  Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7. c. 37)— 58. 
section
 11. 
Workmen's Compensation  Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7. c. 
58)— 
Second Schedule. In case— 
(a) the criminal  injury comes within section 
140 of the Grand Jury (Ireland) Act, 1836 , 
and 
(b) it was committed on the verge or within 
one mile of the boundary of two or more 
counties, and 
(c) all such counties are not within the same 
circuit, 
the judge  of any circuit (to be selected by the 
applicant) which includes one or more of such 
counties. 
In any other case, the judge of the circuit where 
the criminal injury was committed. 
The judge  of the circuit where the house is 
situate. 
The judge  of the circuit where the offence was 
committed. 
The judge of the circuit where the whole or any 
part of the open space is situate. 
The judge of the circuit where the land 
comprised in the improvement scheme is 
situate. 
The judge  of the circuit where the land in respect 
of which the sum was paid as purchase 
money or compensation under paragraph (1) 
of the said section 11 is situate. 
The judge  of the Circuit Court before whom the 
proceedings are pending. 59       
         
      
    
         
 
       
       
       
  
       
  
      
         
      
    
      
       
        
  
       
     
    
     
          
    
      
          
     
 
      
        
 
      
         
     
    
      
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7. c. 53)— 
section 7  (1). 
Children Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7. c. 67)— 61. 
section
 58 (2). 
Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910 (10 Edw. 7 & 1 Geo. 62. 
5. c. 8)— 
section 33 (4). 
Labourers (Ireland) Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5. c. 19) 63. 
— 
section
 6. 
Public Roads (Ireland) Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5. c. 64. 
45)— 
section
 1 (4). 
Pilotage Act, 1913 (2 & 3 Geo. 5. c. 31)— 65. 
section 28. 
Criminal Justice Administration Act, 1914 (4 & 5 66. 
Geo. 5. c. 58)— 
section 10. 
Income Tax Act, 1918 (8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. 40)— 67. 
section 196.  
Housing (Ireland) Act, 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 45) 68. 
— 
section 12. 
Housing (Ireland) Act, 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 45) 69. 
— 
section 25. The judge of the circuit where the functional 
area of the local authority is situate. 
The judge of the Circuit Court before whom the 
child is charged. 
At the option of the appellant— 
(a) the judge  of the circuit where the 
appellant resides, or 
(b) the judge  of the circuit where the 
property is situate. 
The judge  of the circuit where the land, in 
respect of which the purchase money or 
compensation is payable, is situate. 
At the election of the plaintiff— 
(a) the judge  of the circuit where the damage 
was done, or 
(b) the judge  of the circuit where the 
defendant or one of the defendants 
resides or carries on business. 
The judge of the circuit where the port for which 
the pilot is licensed is situate. 
The judge of the circuit in which is situate the 
courthouse in which the offender was 
summarily convicted. 
The judge of the circuit where the assessment 
was made. 
The judge of the circuit where the land in respect 
of which the purchase money or 
compensation is payable is situate. 
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— made. 
section 7.  
Electoral Act, 1923 (No. 12 of 1923)— The judge of the circuit where the registration 71. 
area of the registration officer concerned is section 16. 
situate. 
Land Act, 1923 (No. 42 of 1923) — The judge of the circuit where the land is situate. 72. 
section 69 (3). 
FIFTH SCHEDULE 
Adaptations (in relation to the Circuit Court and the judges thereof) of certain British statutes 
relating to former County Courts, Courts of Quarter Sessions and judges thereof
 
Section 22 (4) 
Session and Chapter Short Title Adaptation 
(1) (2)  (3) 
7 & 8 Geo. 4. c. 53. Excise Management Act, 1827 . The references to the justices of the peace 
assembled at the general quarter 
sessions shall be construed as 
references to the Circuit Court. 
6 & 7 Vic. c. 36. Scientific Societies Act, 1843. In section 2, the references to the recorder 
or justices shall be construed as 
references to the judge of the circuit 
where the land or buildings of the 
society are situate.               
      
    
       
  
       
      
        
   
      
    
            
    
     
      
     
      
     
    
             
    
     
     
     
    
          
     
      
     
 
        
     
   
     
      
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obtained in any action or suit in a 
superior court shall be construed as 
including a reference to a j udgment of 
the Circuit Court. 
In section  29, the references to an assistant 
barrister, the chairman of the sessions of 
the peace of the county of Dublin or a 
recorder shall be construed as 
references to  the judge of the Circuit 
Court before whom the proceedings are 
pending. 
14 & 15Vic. c. 90.  Fines (Ireland) Act, 1851 . In section 10, as amended by section 2 of 
the Summary Jurisdiction (Ireland) Act, 
1918 (8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. 18), the references 
to an assistant barrister, recorder of a 
city or borough and the chairman of 
quarter sessions for the county of Dublin 
shall be construed as references to a 
judge of  the Circuit Court. 
14 & 15 Vic. c. 93. Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851 In section 34, as amended by section 2 of 
. the Summary Jurisdiction (Ireland) Act, 
1918 (8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. 18), the first 
reference to quarter sessions shall be 
construed as a reference to the Circuit 
Court. 
17 & 18 Vic. c. 103. Towns Improvement (Ireland) 
Act, 1854 . In section 44, the reference to the court of 
the assistant barrister shall be construed 
as a reference to the Circuit Court. 
23 & 24 Vic. c. 4. Annual Revision  of Rateable 
Property (Ireland) 
Amendment Act, 1860. References to  the court of quarter sessions 
shall be construed as references to the 
Circuit Court. References to the 
chairman of quarter sessions shall be 
construed as references to a judge of the 
Circuit Court.    
          
    
       
      
     
     
      
     
      
           
    
    
        
     
   
         
        
     
      
              
     
      
   
          
    
     
       
   
      
     
     
     
          
     
      
  23 & 24 Vic. c. 154. Landlord and Tenant Law In section 70, the reference to an assistant 
Amendment Act, Ireland, 1860 barrister shall be construed as a 
. 
27 & 28 Vic. c. 52. Valuation (Ireland) Act, 1864. 
33 & 34 Vic. c. 28. Attorneys' and Solicitors' Act, 
1870 . 
33 & 34 Vic. c. 46. Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) 
Act, 1870 . 
34 & 35 Vic. c. 78. Regulation of Railways Act, 1871 
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35 & 36 Vic. c. 58. Bankruptcy (Ireland) 
Amendment Act, 1872. 
37 & 38 Vic. c. 72. Fines (Ireland) Act, 1851, 
Amendment Act, 1874 . reference to a judge of the Circuit Court. 
In section 79, the references to the 
chairman of the county shall be 
construed as references to the judge of 
the circuit where the lands or premises 
to which the certificate of desertion 
relates or any part thereof are situate. 
The references  to quarter sessions shall be 
construed as references to the Circuit 
Court. 
In section 8, the references to fifty pounds 
shall be construed as references to six 
hundred pounds. 
In sections 59, 60 and 61, the references to 
the civil bill court of a county shall be 
construed as references to the judge of 
the circuit where the county is situate. 
In section 7, the reference to a county court 
judge shall be construed as a reference 
to a judge of the Circuit Court. 
In sections 81 to 86, the references to the 
chairman of quarter sessions within 
whose jurisdiction the debtor had a fixed 
abode at the time of the adjudication of 
bankruptcy shall be construed as 
references to the judge of the circuit 
where the debtor had a fixed abode at 
the time of the adjudication of 
bankruptcy. 
In section 2, the reference to an assistant 
barrister, recorder or chairman shall be 
construed as a reference to a judge of 
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     38 & 39 Vic. c. 17. Explosives Act, 1875 . In section 66, the reference to a county 
court judge shall be construed as a 
reference to a judge of the Circuit Court. 
38 & 39 Vic. c. 90. Employers and Workmen Act, 
1875 . In section 8, the reference to a county court 
shall be construed as a reference to the 
Circuit Court.  
39 & 40 Vic. c. 36. Customs Consolidation Act, 1876 In the definition (contained in section 284) 
. of “justice”, the reference to a county 
court judge shall be construed as a 
reference to a judge of the Circuit Court. 
40 & 41 Vic. c. 56. County Officers and Courts 
(Ireland) Act, 1877 . In section 47, the reference to five hundred 
pounds shall be construed as a 
reference to two thousand pounds and 
the reference to thirty pounds as a 
reference to sixty pounds. 
41 & 42 Vic. c. 52. Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878 In section 115, the reference to the court of 
. quarter sessions shall be construed as a 
reference to the Circuit Court. 
41 & 42 Vic. c. 76. Telegraph Act,  1878. In section  4 (including that section as 
applied by section 4 of the Telegraph Act, 
1892 (55 & 56 Vic. c. 49), sections 3 and 5 
of the Telegraph (Construction) Act, 1908 
(8 Edw. 7. c. 33), and section 1 of the 
Telegraph (Construction) Act, 1916 (6 & 7 
Geo. 5. c. 40)), the references to the 
judge of the county court having 
jurisdiction within the district in which 
the difference has arisen shall be 
construed as references  to the judge of 
the circuit where the district is situate. 
44 & 45 Vic. c. 49. Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881 . In subsection (1) of section 37, the 
reference to the civil bill court of the 
county where  the matter requiring the 
cognizance of the court arises shall be 
construed as a reference to the judge of 
the circuit where the matter requiring 
the cognizance of the court arises.    
          
      
       
      
     
   
             
       
     
      
  
            
       
       
      
       
         
     
     
   
    
            
      
      
     
     
     
    
     
            
     
     56 & 57 Vic. c. 39. Industrial and Provident 
Societies Act, 1893 . In section 61, the reference to the county 
court of the district where the registered 
office of the society is situate shall be 
construed as a reference to the judge of 
the circuit where the registered office of 
the society is situate. 
57 & 58 Vic. c. 60. Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 . In paragraph (c) of subsection (4) of section 
547, the reference to the recorder or the 
chairman of quarter sessions shall be 
construed as a reference to a judge of 
the Circuit Court. 
8 Edw. 7. c. 57.  Coal Mines  Regulation Act, 1908. In subsection (5) of section 1, the reference 
to the judge of county courts for the 
district in which the mine is situate shall 
be construed as  a reference to the judge 
of the circuit where the mine is situate. 
8 Edw. 7. c. 67.  Children Act,  1908. In subsection  (4) of section 74 and in 
subsection (2) of section 75, the 
references to the court of quarter 
sessions shall be construed as 
references to  the Circuit Court. 
1 & 2 Geo. 5. c. 19. Labourers (Ireland)  Act, 1911. In subsection (1) of section 6 (including that 
section as applied by section 12 of the 
Housing (Ireland) Act, 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 
5. c. 45)), the references to the county 
court shall be construed as references to 
the Circuit Court, and the reference to 
one hundred pounds shall be construed 
as a reference to six hundred pounds. 
1 & 2 Geo. 5. c. 45. Public Roads (Ireland)  Act, 1911. In subsection (4) of section 1, the reference 
to two hundred and fifty pounds shall be 
construed as a reference to six hundred 
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applied by section  1 of the Coal Mines 
Act, 1914  (4 & 5 Geo. 5. c. 22)), the 
reference to  a county court judge shall 
be construed as  a reference to a judge of 
the Circuit  Court. 
In subsection  (3) of section 77, the 
reference to  the judge of the county 
court for  the district in which the mine is 
situate shall  be construed as a reference 
to the judge of the circuit where the 
mine is situate. 
2 & 3 Geo. 5. c. 30. Trade Union Act, 1913 . In subsection (2) of section 3, the 
references to  the county court shall be 
construed as references  to the Circuit 
Court. 
9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 45. Housing (Ireland) Act, 1919 . In subsection (3) of section 25, the 
reference to  thirty pounds shall be 
construed as a  reference to sixty pounds 
and the reference  to the county court as 
a reference  to the Circuit Court. 
10 & 11 Geo. 5. c. 26. Sheriffs (Ireland) Act, 1920 . In section 7, the references to a civil bill 
court shall  be construed as references to 
the Circuit  Court. 
SIXTH SCHEDULE 
Assignment of justices of District Court to district court districts 
Section 32 (3) . 
Definitions. 
1. In this Schedule— 
“district” means a district court district;
 
“district justice” means a justice of the District Court, but does not include a temporary 
district justice; 
“temporary district justice” means a person appointed under section 51 of the Act of 1936, as
 
applied by section 48 of this Act to act as a district justice.        
         Permanent assignment of district justices to districts. 
2. (1) ( a) Where a person is appointed a district justice, then, subject to clause ( b) of this 
subparagraph, the Government, if they think fit, may, upon such appointment, 
assign him permanently to a particular district. 
(b) Where, at the time of the appointment of a person to be a district justice, there 
are four district justices not permanently assigned to particular districts, the
 
Government shall assign that person permanently to a particular district. 
(2) Where a district justice is not upon appointment permanently assigned to a particular 
district, the Government may at any time assign him permanently to a particular district.
 
(3) A district justice who is permanently assigned to a particular district may, with his 
consent, be transferred by the Minister to another district and, if he is so transferred, he
 
shall upon such transfer become and be permanently assigned to such other district in lieu of being permanently assigned to such first-mentioned district. 
(4) (
a) Where a district justice is permanently assigned to a particular district, the 
Government, at his request, may, if they think fit, terminate his permanent assignment to that district. 
(
b) Where the permanent assignment of a district justice is terminated under clause ( a) 
of this subparagraph, the Government may at any time thereafter assign him permanently to a particular district. 
Temporary assignment to districts of district justices and temporary district justices. 
3. (1) A district justice who is permanently assigned to a particular district may, with his 
consent, from time to time be temporarily assigned by the Minister to another district, but
 
such temporary assignment shall be without prejudice to the exercise and performance by him of the privileges, powers and duties for the time being conferred or imposed on him by law in relation to the district to which he is permanently assigned. 
(2) A district justice who is not for the time being permanently assigned to a district may 
from time to time be assigned by the Minister to any district.
 
(3) A temporary district justice may from time to time be temporarily assigned by the 
Minister to any district.
 
(4) Where a person is temporarily assigned to a district under subparagraph (1), (2) or (3) of 
this paragraph—
 
(a) in case there is for the time being a district justice permanently assigned to that 
district—he shall, in relation to that district have, while so temporarily assigned,
 
concurrently with that district justice, all the privileges, powers and duties for the time being conferred or imposed by law on that district justice,                
     (b) in any other case—he shall, in relation to that district have, while so temporarily 
assigned, all such privileges, powers and duties as would for the time being be
 
conferred or imposed by law if he were a district justice permanently assigned to 
that district. 
(5) The Minister may at any time terminate a temporary assignment made under this 
paragraph.
 
District justice acting in certain cases for another district justice who is permanently assigned to a district. 
4. (1) Wherever it appears to the President of the District Court, on the representation of a 
justice of the District Court permanently assigned to a particular district, that such justice
 
cannot properly deal with any matter before him by reason of the fact that he has a personal interest therein or such personal knowledge of the facts or of the parties as might prejudice the trial of that matter, the President of the District Court may nominate another justice of the District Court, who so consents, to hear and determine that matter in that district and, if the President does so, then that matter may be heard and determined accordingly. 
(2) In the case of illness or absence of the district justice permanently assigned to a district 
(in this subparagraph referred to as the first justice), another district justice may, with the
 
consent of the Minister (in addition, if he is permanently assigned to another district, to exercising and performing the privileges, powers and duties conferred by law in relation to the district to which he is permanently assigned) exercise and perform during such illness or absence, the privileges, powers and duties for the time being conferred or imposed by law on the first justice in relation to the district to which the first justice is permanently assigned. 
(3) Where a district justice permanently assigned to a particular district (in this 
subparagraph referred to as the first justice) requests another district justice (in this
 
subparagraph referred to as the second justice) to act for him during a specified period (not exceeding seven days) the second justice may (in addition, if he is permanently assigned to another district, to exercising and performing the privileges, powers and duties conferred by law on him in relation to the district to which he is permanently assigned) exercise and perform during that period the privileges, powers and duties for the time being conferred or imposed by law on the first justice in relation to the district to which the first justice is permanently assigned. 
SEVENTH SCHEDULE 
Existing courts and corresponding courts established by the Principal Act, and judges of 
existing courts and corresponding judges of courts established by the Principal Act
 
Sections 48 , 49 and 61 . 
Part I      
     
     
         
     
     
        
     
           
           
  
 
             Ref. No. Existing court Court established by the Principal Act 
(1) (2) (3) 
The existing Supreme Court. The Supreme Court. 1. 
The
 existing High Court. The High Court. 2. 
The
 existing Court of Criminal Appeal. The Court of Criminal Appeal. 3. 
The
 existing Circuit Court. The Circuit Court. 4. 
The
 existing District Court. The District Court. 5. 
Part II 
Ref. No. Judge of existing court Judge of court established by the Principal 
Act 
(1) (2)  (3) 
The existing Chief Justice. The Chief Justice. 1. 
The
 existing President of the High Court. The President of the High Court. 2. 
The
 existing President of the Circuit Court. The President of the Circuit Court. 3. 
EIGHTH SCHEDULE 
Provisions in relation to offices and officers to be attached to the High Court, the Supreme 
Court and the President of the High Court 
Section 55 (1). 
Interpretation. 
1. (1) This Schedule shall be construed as one with Part I of the Act of 1926. 
(2) Except where the context otherwise requires, references in this Schedule to any 
enactment which is applied by section 48 of this Act shall be construed as references to that  
enactment as so applied. 
Offices attached to the High Court, the Supreme Court and the President of the High Court. 
2. There shall become and be attached to the High Court, the Supreme Court and the 
President of the High Court respectively the following offices—
 
To the High Court, 
The Central Office,
              
     The Taxing-Masters' Office, 
The Probate Office, The Office of the Official Assignee in Bankruptcy, Two Examiners' Offices or the Examiner's Office, The Accountant's Office; 
To the Supreme Court, 
The Office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court;
 
To the President of the High Court, 
The Office of Wards of Court. 
Officers attached to the High Court the Supreme Court and the President of the High Court. 
3. There shall become and be attached to the High Court, the Supreme Court and the 
President of the High Court respectively the following officers (each of whom shall be a
 
principal officer within the meaning of Part of the Act of 1926)— 
To the High Court, 
The Master of the High Court,
 
Two Taxing-Masters, 
The Probate Officer, The Official Assignee in Bankruptcy, Two Examiners or the Examiner, The Accountant; 
To the Supreme Court, 
The Registrar of the Supreme Court;
 
To the President of the High Court, 
The Registrar of Wards of Court. 
The Master of the High Court. 
4. (1) In this paragraph “rules of court” means rules made under section 36 of the Act of 
1924.
   
     
      (2) The Master of the High Court shall have and exercise such powers and authorities and 
perform such duties and functions as are from time to time conferred on or assigned to him
 
by statute or rules of court and in particular (unless and until otherwise provided by statute 
or rules of court) shall have and perform all such other powers, authorities, duties and functions as are vested in him by virtue of subsection (3) of section 31 of the Act of 1926. 
The Central Office. 
5. (1) The Central Office shall be under the management of such principal officer serving in 
the Central Office as the Minister, after consultation with the President of the High Court,
 
may from time to time nominate in that behalf. 
(2) There shall be transacted in the Central 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 the Master of the High Court and except such business as is for the time being assigned by law either to another office attached to the High Court or to the Office of Wards of Court. 
(3) The person who, immediately before the operative date, had, by virtue of a nomination 
under paragraph (
a) of subsection (2) of section 2 (repealed by this Act) of the Act of 1945, 
the management of the Central Office shall continue to have the management of the Central Office and be deemed to have been nominated under subparagraph (1) of this paragraph. 
The Registrars of the High Court. 
6. (1) Such and so many as the Minister thinks 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 and every such registrar (in addition to any other duties which may be assigned to him by the officer for the time being managing the Central Office) shall act as registrar to the High Court as and when directed so to do by the officer for the time being managing the Central Office. 
(2) The officers for the time being nominated under subparagraph (1) of this paragraph to 
be registrars of the High Court shall be principal officers within the meaning of Part I of the
 
Act of 1926. 
(3) Every person, who immediately before the operative date, was, by virtue of a 
nomination under subsection (2) of section 4 (repealed by this Act) of the Act of 1926, a
 
registrar of the existing High Court shall become and be a registrar of the High Court and be deemed to have been nominated under subparagraph (1) of this paragraph. 
General superintendence and control of High Court offices.   
       
  7. The officer for the time being managing the Central Office shall have the general 
superintendence and control of the offices attached to the High Court, but shall in the
 
exercise of such superintendence and control be subject to the general direction of the 
Minister in regard to all matters of general administration and to the directions of the President of the High Court in regard to all matters relating to the conduct of that part of the business of the High Court which is for the time being required by law to be transacted by or before one or more judges of the High Court. 
The Taxing-Masters' Office. 
8. The Taxing-Masters' Office shall be under the management of the senior Taxing-Master, 
and there shall be transacted in that Office the business of the Taxing-Masters other than
 
such business as is required by law to be transacted by a Taxing-Master in person. 
The Office of the Official Assignee in Bankruptcy. 
9. The Office of the Official Assignee in Bankruptcy shall be under the management of the 
Official 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 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 Southern Ireland. 
The Examiners' Offices. 
10. (1) Until the number of Examiners shall be reduced to one, one Examiner's Office shall 
be under the management of one of the Examiners and the other Examiner's Office shall be
 
under the management of the other Examiner. 
(2) There shall be transacted in each Examiner's Office or in the Examiner's Office (where 
there is only one Examiner) 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 offices attached to the respective Chambers of the Master of the Rolls and the ordinary judge of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice in Southern Ireland and also such business as 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. 
(3) There shall also be transacted in the Office of one of the Examiners (to be nominated 
by the Minister after consultation with the President of the High Court) or in the Examiner's
 
Office (where there is only one Examiner) all such business as was formerly transacted in the Bankruptcy Office of the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice in Southern Ireland.  
    
        
 
     
 The Examiners. 
11. (1) Each of the Examiners or the Examiner (where there is only one Examiner) shall 
have and exercise all such powers and authorities and perform and fulfil all 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 perform and fulfil such duties and functions as were formerly performed or fulfilled by the several Chief Clerks and Assistant Chief Clerks of the Master of the Rolls and the ordinary judge of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice in Southern Ireland respectively and by the Chief Receiver or the Receiver-Examiner. 
(2) One of the Examiners (to be nominated by the Minister after consultation with the 
President of the High Court) or the Examiner (where there is only one Examiner) shall have
 
and exercise all such powers and authorities as were formerly vested in the Chief Registrar in Bankruptcy of the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice in Southern Ireland and shall perform and fulfil such duties and functions as were formerly required by law to be or were in fact performed or fulfilled by the said Chief Registrar and the Registrar and Deputy Registrar in Bankruptcy of the said King's Bench Division respectively. 
(3) The powers, authorities, duties and functions of an Examiner or of the Examiner (where 
there is only one Examiner) may, subject to any restrictions which the President of the High
 
Court may think fit to impose, be executed, performed or fulfilled by an officer (to be designated by the President of the High Court) who is employed in that Examiner's Office or in the Examiner's Office (where there is only one Examiner) and who is qualified to be appointed Examiner. 
Reduction in number of Examiners. 
12. On the occurrence of the first vacancy in the office of Examiner, the number of 
Examiners shall be reduced to one, who shall be the Examiner, and the two Examiners'
 
Offices shall be consolidated into one office, which shall be the Examiner's Office and shall be under the management of the Examiner. 
The Office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court. 
13. There shall be transacted in the office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court all 
business in relation to the jurisdictions exercisable by the Chief Justice under subsection (1)
 
of section 10 of this Act.  
The Registrar of the Supreme Court. 
14. (1) The Registrar of the Supreme Court shall act as registrar to the Chief Justice in 
relation to the exercise by the Chief Justice of the jurisdiction exercisable by him under
 
subsection (1) of section 10 of this Act.       
 
     
 
 
      (2) The Registrar of the Supreme Court shall be subject to the direction of the Chief Justice 
in regard to the transaction of the business which in pursuance of paragraph 13 of this
 
Schedule is to be transacted in the office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court. 
The Office of Wards of Court. 
15. (1) The Office of Wards of Court shall be under the management of the Registrar of 
Wards of 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 of court) all such business in relation to the exercise of 
the jurisdiction vested in the High Court by subsection (1) of section 9 of this Act as was  
formerly transacted in relation to the exercise of that jurisdiction in the Lunacy Office of the 
Lord Chancellor of Ireland or in the offices attached to the Chambers of the said Lord
 
Chancellor or in any other office attached to the former Supreme Court of Judicature in Southern Ireland. 
(2) The Office of Wards of Court shall for the purposes of section 9 of the Act of 1945 be 
deemed to be an office attached to a court.
 
The Registrar of Wards of Court. 
16. (1) The Registrar of Wards of Court shall have the superintendence and control of the 
Office of Wards of Court and shall in the exercise of such superintendence and control be
 
subject, in regard to all matters of general administration, to the general direction of the Minister and, in regard to all matters relating to the jurisdiction vested in the High Court by 
subsection (1) of section 9 of this Act, to the directions of the judge of the High Court for the
  
time being exercising that jurisdiction. 
(2) In addition to the superintendence and control of the Office of Wards of Court, the 
Registrar of Wards of Court shall have and exercise all such powers and authorities and
 
perform and fulfil such duties and functions in relation to the exercise of the jurisdiction 
vested in the High Court by subsection (1) of section 9 of this Act 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 were formerly vested in the Registrar in Lunacy in Ireland or in the Chief Clerk to the Lord Chancellor of Ireland and shall perform and fulfil all such functions and duties in relation to the jurisdiction aforesaid as were formerly performed and fulfilled by the said Registrar in Lunacy and the said Chief Clerk respectively. 
(3) The Registrar of Wards of Court shall for the purposes of section 9 of the Act of 1945 be 
deemed to be an officer attached to the High Court.
 
Qualification of Master of the High Court.   
  
        17. No person shall be appointed to be Master of the High Court unless at the time of his 
appointment he is a barrister of not less than ten years' standing who is then actually
 
practising. 
Qualification of Taxing-Master. 
18. No person shall be appointed to be a Taxing-Master unless at the time of his 
appointment he is 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. 
The Taxing Masters. 
19. Each of the Taxing-Masters shall have and exercise the following powers and 
authorities and perform and fulfil the following duties and functions—
 
(a) such powers, authorities, duties and functions as are for the time being conferred on 
or assigned to them by statute or rule of court,
 
(b) unless and until otherwise provided by statute or rule of court—all such powers, 
authorities, duties and functions in relation to the High Court, and the Supreme
 
Court, as were formerly possessed and performed by the several Taxing-Masters of 
the former Supreme Court of Judicature in Southern Ireland in relation to that Court, 
(
c) unless and until otherwise provided by statute or rule of court—all such powers, 
authorities and functions in relation to the Court of Criminal Appeal, the Chief
 
Justice and the President of the High Court, as were immediately before the operative date possessed or exercised by them in relation to the existing Court of Criminal Appeal, the existing Chief Justice and the existing President of the High Court respectively, 
(
d) such other powers, authorities, duties and functions as were immediately before the 
passing of the Act of 1924 vested or imposed by law in or on the several Taxing-Masters of the former Supreme Court of Judicature in Southern Ireland, and
 
(e) the duty of taxing any costs to be received, allowed or paid to a solicitor as respects 
business undertaken on or after the 1st day of October, 1957, in relation to the
 
exercise by a local authority of their powers under the Labourers (Ireland) Acts, 1883 to 1958. 
Amendment of section 6 of the Act of 1945. 
20. In section 6 (which relates to the appointment of the Probate Officer or an Examiner) of 
the Act of 1945, the references to an office established by Part I of the Act of 1926 shall be
 
construed as references to an office mentioned in paragraph 2 of this Schedule.       
   
        Qualification of Registrar of Wards of Court 
21. No person shall be appointed to be Registrar of Wards of Court unless at the time of 
his appointment he either—
 
(a) is a barrister of not less than ten years' standing who is then actually practising, or 
(b) is a barrister who is then employed in an office mentioned in paragraph 2 of this 
Schedule and has during the next preceding twelve years been employed in one or
 
more of the offices mentioned in the said paragraph 2. 
General staffs of offices. 
22. (1) In addition to the principal officers there shall be employed in the several offices 
mentioned in paragraph 2 of this Schedule such and so many officers, clerks, messengers,
 
criers and servants as the Minister shall from time to time determine with the sanction of the 
Minister for Finance and after consultation with the President of the High Court in the case of an office attached to the High Court or in the case of the Office of Wards of Court and with the Chief Justice in the case of the Office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court. 
(2) All officers (other than the principal officers), clerks, messengers, criers and servants 
employed in any of the offices mentioned in paragraph 2 of this Schedule 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 after consultation with the President of the High Court in the case of an office attached to the High Court or in the case of the Office of Wards of Court and with the Chief Justice in the case of the Office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court. 
Nominations under section 28 of the Act of 1926. 
23. Every nomination made before the operative date under section 28 of the Act of 1926 
which has not been revoked before the operative date shall continue in force and be
 
deemed to have been made under the said section 28.