LegalizeTHE COURTS OF JUSTICE ACT, 1924
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68 amending acts · 2026-02-19, Defamation (Amendment) Act 2026
100.—Where any person who is at the passing of this Act a judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature in Ireland, a Recorder, County Court Judge, or District Justice in Saorstát Eireann, or a Divisional Justice of the Police District of Dublin Metropolis is appointed to be a judge of any Court under this Act after he has attained the age of retirement prescribed by this Act for the judges of such Court, such age of retirement shall in his case be extended by the addition of three years thereto.
101 Rules not to come into operation until approved by Oireachtas.
101.—No rules of court made under this Act shall come into operation unless and until they have been laid before each House of the Oireachtas and have been approved by resolution of each such House.
102 Provisions as to existing officers.
102.—Unless and until otherwise determined by the Oireachtas, all registrars, clerks and other officers attached to the existing Supreme Court of Judicature or to the Lord Chief Justice in the exercise of the jurisdiction in Lunacy vested in him and to the Courts of existing Recorders, County Court Judges and District Justices or the Divisional Magistrates of the Police District of Dublin Metropolis shall continue to hold office by the same tenure as heretofore, and to discharge the duties heretofore discharged by them or duties analogous thereto. Every question which shall arise as to whether any duties are analogous to any other duties shall be determined by the Chief Justice, whose decision shall be final. Nothing in this Section shall prejudice the rights of any officer under Section 10 of the Articles of Agreement for a Treaty between Great Britain and Ireland signed at London on the 6th day of December, 1921.
103 Appeals pending to Judge of Assize shall be heard by Judges of High Court.
103.—All appeals and other applications to Judges of Assize pending at the commencement of Part II. of this Act shall be heard and determined by such Judge or Judges of the High Court as shall be nominated for the purpose by the President of the High Court and at such times and places as the Minister for Home Affairs shall, by order, prescribe and direct.
104 Trial of persons awaiting trial at commencement of Act.
104.—Every person who shall at the commencement of Part I. of this Act have been sent forward for trial at Assizes or any other Commission of Oyer and Terminer and gaol delivery, and be awaiting trial, and every person who shall at the commencement of this Act have been sent forward for trial by the County Court Judge, or by any Dáil Court as defined by the Dáil Eireann Courts (Winding-Up) Act, 1923 (No. 36 of 1923), on any charge excluded from the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court and be awaiting trial on such charge, shall be deemed to have been sent forward for trial by and shall be tried by the Central Criminal Court or, if so directed by the Attorney-General, a court of the High Court Circuit. Every person who shall at the commencement of Part II. of this Act have been sent forward for trial by the County Court Judge, or by any such Dáil Court as aforesaid, on any charge within the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court, and be awaiting trial, shall be deemed to have been sent forward for trial by and shall be tried by the appropriate Circuit Court.
Schedule in the foregoing Act referred to.
| Population | ||||
| 1. | Dublin City and County | Dublin City and County | Dublin City and County | 476,000 |
| 2. | Cork City and County | Cork City and County | Cork City and County | 392,000 |
| 3. | Donegal | } | Northern | 394,000 |
| Leitrim | } | Northern | 394,000 | |
| Cavan | } | Northern | 394,000 | |
| Monaghan | } | Northern | 394,000 | |
| 4. | Mayo | } | Western | 374,000 |
| Galway | } | Western | 374,000 | |
| 5. | Sligo | } | Midland | 388,000 |
| Roscommon | } | Midland | 388,000 | |
| Westmeath | } | Midland | 388,000 | |
| Leix | } | Midland | 388,000 | |
| Offaly | } | Midland | 388,000 | |
| Longford | } | Midland | 388,000 | |
| 6. | Louth | } | Eastern | 358,000 |
| Meath | } | Eastern | 358,000 | |
| Kildare | } | Eastern | 358,000 | |
| Wicklow | } | Eastern | 358,000 | |
| Wexford | } | Eastern | 358,000 | |
| 7. | Kerry | } | South-Western | 406,000 |
| Limerick | } | South-Western | 406,000 | |
| Clare | } | South-Western | 406,000 | |
| 8. | Tipperary | } | Southern | 348 000 |
| Kilkenny | } | Southern | 348 000 | |
| Waterford | } | Southern | 348 000 | |
| Carlow | } | Southern | 348 000 |
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