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54.—(1) Where a justice of the District Court assigned to a particular district requests another justice of the District Court to exercise, during such period not exceeding seven days as such first-mentioned justice may specify, the privileges, powers, and duties for the time being conferred by law on such first-mentioned justice in relation to such district, such other justice may in addition to exercising the privileges, powers, and duties conferred by law on him in relation to the district to which he is for the time being assigned, exercise during the said period the privileges, powers, and duties for the time being conferred by law on such first-mentioned justice in relation to such first-mentioned district.

• (2) The provisions of this section are in addition to and not in substitution for the provisions of section 15 of the Courts of Justice Act, 1928 (No. 15 of 1928).

55 Power of Circuit Court to release from recognisance.

55.—Whenever an order is made by the District Court 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 recognisance in that behalf, such person may, at any time within one month after he has entered into such recognisance in accordance with such order, and on giving seven days' notice to the officer of the Gárda Síochána in charge of the district in which such person resides, apply in a summary manner to the judge of the Circuit Court within whose circuit the courthouse in which such order was made is situate to be released from the obligations imposed on him by such order and such recognisance respectively, and on the hearing of such application such judge may, if he so thinks proper, release such person from such obligations or modify in such manner as such judge thinks proper all or any of such obligations, and may make such release or modification either absolutely or subject to conditions and, in particular, subject to such person entering in the District Court into a new recognisance in lieu of such first-mentioned recognisance.

56 Amendment of section 83 of the Principal Act.

56.—Notwithstanding anything contained in section 83 of the Principal Act, an appeal shall lie by leave of the High Court to the Supreme Court from every determination (pronounced on or after the date of the passing of this Act) of the High Court on a question of law referred to the High Court under that section.

57 Amendment of section 84 of the Principal Act.

57.—Section 84 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution of the words “the courthouse in which such decision was given is situate” for the words “the district or any part of the district of the justice lies” now contained therein, and the said section shall be construed and have effect accordingly.

58 Amendment of section 18 of Courts of Justice Act, 1928.

58.—Sub-section (3) of section 18 of the Courts of Justice Act, 1928 (No. 15 of 1928), is hereby amended by the substitution of the words “the courthouse in which such order was made is situate” for the words “the district or any part of the district of such justice lies” now contained therein, and the said section shall be construed and have effect accordingly.

59 Appeals in licensing and club cases.

59.—Notwithstanding anything contained in any other enactment and, in particular, notwithstanding anything contained in section 18 of the Courts of Justice Act, 1928 (No. 15 of 1928), as amended by this Act, every appeal which lies to the Circuit Court from an order of the District Court in a criminal case, under the Licensing (Ireland) Acts, 1833 to 1927, or under the Registration of Clubs Acts, 1904 to 1927, shall lie to the judge of the Circuit Court within whose circuit is situate the licensed premises or the club premises on or in respect of which the offence the subject of such order was committed or to which such order otherwise relates.

60 Power to strike out with costs in cases of excess of jurisdiction.

60.—Where a civil proceeding is brought in the District Court which that court has not jurisdiction to hear and determine, the justice shall, as soon as such want of jurisdiction becomes apparent, order such proceeding to be struck out and may, if he thinks proper, make an order awarding to the defendant such costs as the court could have awarded if it had jurisdiction to try and determine such proceeding and either the plaintiff did not appear or appeared and failed to prove his demand.

61 Duration of decree or dismiss of District Court.

61.—Every decree and every dismiss made (whether before or after the passing of this Act) by the District Court in a civil proceeding shall continue and, in the case of every such decree or dismiss made before the passing of this Act, be deemed always to have continued to be in force and to have effect for so long as such decree or dismiss would so continue or have so continued if it had been a judgment of the High Court.

62 Power to Attorney-General to send forward for trial.

62.—(1) Where a person is brought before a justice of the District Court charged with an indictable crime, and such charge either cannot lawfully be or is not disposed of summarily by such justice, and such justice refuses to receive informations in relation to such charge or to send such person forward for trial on such charge, then and in every such case it shall be lawful for the Attorney-General to direct that such person be sent forward for trial to a specified Court to which such justice could lawfully have so sent such person.

• (2) Whenever the Attorney-General gives a direction under this section that a person be sent forward for trial to any particular Court on any particular charge, the Attorney-General shall cause such direction to be communicated to the district court clerk for the district court area in which such person was brought before the District Court on such charge, and thereupon such direction shall have the same operation and effect in all respects as an order of a justice of the District Court sending such person forward for trial to such Court on such charge would have had, and all persons concerned shall act accordingly

• (3) When a direction by the Attorney-General under this section has been communicated to the district court clerk in pursuance of the next preceding sub-section of this section, such district court clerk shall cause to be served on the person to whose trial such direction relates notice in writing stating that the Attorney-General has directed under this section that such person shall be sent forward for trial to a particular Court (which shall be specified in such notice) on a particular charge (which shall be similarly specified) and that such person is required to attend before the said Court at a specified time and place and there to stand his trial on the said charge.

• (4) If a person on whom a notice has been served under the next preceding sub-section of this section fails to attend before the Court at the time and place specified in such notice, it shall be lawful for such Court, on proof of the service of such notice on such person not less than seven clear days before the day on which he is thereby required to attend before the said Court and of the service on such person of copies of the relevant depositions and particulars of all additional evidence intended to be adduced by the prosecution on the trial of such person, to issue a bench warrant for the arrest of such person and the bringing of such person before the said Court in custody.

63 Attendance of witnesses in civil cases.

63.—A justice of the District Court shall have the same powers of procuring the attendance of witnesses in the District Court in the exercise of his jurisdiction in civil cases as are vested in him in the exercise of his jurisdiction in criminal cases.

64 The Dublin Metropolitan Area and the Dublin district.

64.—(1) In this section—

the word “enactment” means an enactment contained in a British Statute or in an Act of the Oireachtas.

• (2) The Minister for Justice may, if and when he thinks proper, by order declare that as on and from a specified day (in this section referred to as the appointed day) a specified district prescribed under section 68 of the Principal Act or under sub-section (3) of section 47 of the Court Officers Act, 1926 (No. 27 of 1926), shall be styled and known as the Dublin Metropolitan District.

• (3) If and when the Minister for Justice makes such order, as is authorised by the next preceding sub-section of this section. the following provisions shall have effect as on and from the appointed day, that is to say:—

• (a) the said Minister may, at any time or times, by order transfer the title “Dublin Metropolitan District” to any other district prescribed under the said section 68 or the said section 47 differing wholly or partially from the district to which such title was previously attached;

• (b) so much of any Act of the Oireachtas as requires, expressly or by implication, that one of the districts so prescribed as aforesaid shall consist of or include or be delimited by reference to the Dublin Metropolitan area shall cease to have effect;

• (c) every reference in section 72 or section 74 of the Principal Act to the Police District of Dublin Metropolis (now styled the Dublin Metropolitan Area) shall be construed as a reference to the Dublin Metropolitan District, and the said sections shall have effect accordingly;

• (d) every enactment which shall, on the day before the appointed day, be in force in and apply to the Dublin Metropolitan Area and in and to no other part of Saorstát Eireann shall, on and after the appointed day, cease to apply to the Dublin Metropolitan Area and in lieu thereof shall be in force in and apply to the Dublin Metropolitan District, and every reference in any such enactment to the Police District of Dublin Metropolis or to the Dublin Metropolitan Area shall be construed as a reference to the Dublin Metropolitan District;

• (e) every enactment which shall, on the day before the appointed day, be in force in and apply to the whole of Saorstát Eireann except the Dublin Metropolitan Area shall, on and after the appointed day, be in force in and apply to the whole of Saorstát Eireann except the Dublin Metropolitan District, and every reference in any such enactment to the Police District of Dublin Metropolis or to the Dublin Metropolitan Area shall be construed as a reference to the Dublin Metropolitan District;

• (f) nothing in either of the two next preceding paragraphs of this sub-section shall operate to keep in force any enactment or any provision in any enactment after the time at which such enactment or provision would have ceased to be in force if this section had not been enacted.

PART VI Rules of Court.

65 Power of Minister for Justice to prescribe court fees.

65.—(1) It shall be lawful for the Minister for Justice, by order made with the consent of the Minister for Finance, to prescribe and from time to time as occasion requires vary or otherwise revise the fees to be charged in the several offices established by the Court Officers Act, 1926 (No. 27 of 1926), as amended by subsequent enactments (including this Act), and the persons by whom and the occasions on which such fees are to be paid and the officers by whom and the manner in which such fees are to be collected.

• (2) An order made by the Minister for Justice under this section may provide that in every financial year commencing after the making of such order there shall be payable, by way of court fees, a percentage on the annual income arising in such year from the property of every person of unsound mind and every minor under the jurisdiction transferred by sub-section (1) of section 19 of the Principal Act to the Chief Justice, and such order may prescribe and from time to time vary the amount, method of calculation, collection, and disposal of such percentage, and, if thought fit, general or special exemptions therefrom, and such order may, in relation to the property of persons of unsound mind, be made by way of variation or extension of or in substitution for all or any of the provisions of sections 109 to 114 of the Lunacy Regulation (Ireland) Act, 1871.

• (3) Unless and until the fees to be charged in any office established by the Court Officers Act, 1926, as amended by subsequent enactments (including this Act) are prescribed by an order made under this section, there shall be charged in such office the fees which were chargeable therein immediately before the passing of this Act, and all such fees shall be paid by the persons and on the occasions and be collected by the officers and in the manner by whom and on and in which such fees were payable and collectable immediately before such passing.

• (4) All fees collected under this section or under an order made under this section shall be paid into or disposed of for the benefit of the Exchequer in such manner as the Minister for Finance shall direct.

• (5) The Public Offices Fees Act, 1879, shall not apply to any fees chargeable under this section or an order made under this section.

66 Fees under the Local Registration of Title (Ireland) Act, 1891.

66.—(1) From and after the passing of this Act, the power of fixing fees conferred by section 8 of the Local Registration of Title (Ireland) Act, 1891, on the Land Judge with the approval of the Lord Chancellor and the consent of the Treasury shall be exercisable only by the Minister for Justice with the consent of the Minister for Finance, and the power of altering such fees conferred by the said section shall be similarly exercisable.

• (2) The reference in sub-section (1) of the said section 8 to the Land Judge (where that expression secondly occurs in the said sub-section) shall be construed and have effect as a reference to the Minister for Justice.

67 Superior Court Rules Committee.

67.—(1) There shall be and is hereby constituted a committee to be styled and in this Part of this Act referred to as the Superior Courts Rules Committee to fulfil the functions assigned to it by this Part of this Act.

• (2) The Superior Courts Rules Committee shall consist of four ex-officio members and six nominated members.

• (3) The ex-officio members of the said committee shall be—

• (a) the Chief Justice, who shall be the chairman of the said committee;

• (b) the President of the High Court, who shall be the vice-chairman of the said committee;

• (c) the President of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland;

• (d) the Master of the High Court.

• (4) Two of the nominated members of the said committee shall be ordinary judges of the Supreme Court and shall (when the number of such ordinary judges exceeds two) be nominated by the Chief Justice, and two of the said nominated members shall be ordinary judges of the High Court nominated by the President of the High Court.

• (5) Two of the nominated members of the said committee shall be practising barristers nominated by the Council of the Bar of Saorstát Eireann, of whom one shall be a member of the Senior Bar and the other shall be a member of the Junior Bar.

• (6) Every nominated member of the said committee shall, unless he sooner dies, resigns, or ceases to be (as the case may be) an ordinary judge of the Supreme Court, an ordinary judge of the High Court, a practising barrister, or (in the case of the member of the Junior Bar) a member of the Junior Bar, hold office as such member for five years from the date of his nomination.

• (7) A nominated member of the said committee whose membership thereof expires by effluxion of time shall be eligible for renomination.

• (8) The Registrar of the Supreme Court shall be the secretary of the said committee.

• (9) The quorum of the said committee shall be six members.

• (10) The said committee may act notwithstanding one or more vacancies in its membership.

68 Rule making authorities under section 36 of the Principal Act.

68.—(1) From and after the passing of this Act the power of making, annulling, or altering rules of court and making new rules conferred by section 36 of the Principal Act shall cease to be exercisable by the Minister for Justice, and in lieu thereof it is hereby enacted that, subject and without prejudice to the provisions of this Act in regard to the fees chargeable in court offices, the said power shall be exercisable by the Superior Courts Rules Committee with the concurrence of the Minister for Justice.

• (2) The reference in sub-section (1) of section 12 of the Approved Investments Act, 1933 (No. 34 of 1933), to the Committee mentioned in section 36 of the Principal Act shall be construed and have effect as a reference to the Superior Courts Rules Committee.

69 Circuit Court Rules Committee.

69.—(1) There shall be and is hereby constituted a committee to be styled and in this Part of this Act referred to as the Circuit Court Rules Committee to fulfil the functions assigned to it by this Part of this Act.

• (2) The Circuit Court Rules Committee shall consist of two ex-officio members and six nominated members.

• (3) The ex-officio members of the said committee shall be—

• (a) the judge or (if more than one) the senior of the judges of the Circuit Court for the time being assigned to the Circuit which includes the county borough of Dublin, who shall be the chairman of the said committee;

• (b) the county registrar for the county and city of Dublin, who shall be the secretary of the said committee.

• (4) Two of the nominated members of the said committee shall be judges of the Circuit Court nominated by the judges of the Circuit Court, and two others of the said nominated members shall be practising barristers nominated by the Council of the Bar of Saorstát Eireann, and two others of the said nominated members shall be practising solicitors nominated by the Council of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

• (5) Every nominated member of the said committee shall, unless he sooner dies, resigns or ceases to be (as the case may be) a judge of the Circuit Court, a practising barrister, or a practising solicitor, hold office as such member for five years from the date of his nomination.

• (6) A nominated member of the said committee whose membership thereof expires by effluxion of time shall be eligible for renomination.

• (7) The quorum of the said committee shall be four members.

• (8) The said committee may act notwithstanding one or more vacancies in its membership.

70 Rule-making authority for the Circuit Court.

70.—Subject and without prejudice to the provisions of this Act in regard to the fees chargeable in court offices, the rule-making authority for the Circuit Court for the purposes of section 66 of the Principal Act shall be the Circuit Court Rules Committee with the concurrence of the Minister for Justice.

71 District Court Rules Committee.

71.—(1) There shall be and is hereby constituted a committee to be styled and in this Part of this Act referred to as the District Court Rules Committee to fulfil the functions assigned to it by this Part of this Act.

• (2) The District Court Rules Committee shall consist of two ex-officio members and seven nominated members.

• (3) The ex-officio members of the said Committee shall be—

• (a) that one of the justices of the District Court for the time being assigned to the district which comprises or includes the county borough of Dublin who is, for the purposes of section 74 of the Principal Act as amended by this Act, the senior of such justices, who shall be the chairman of the said committee;

• (b) the District Court clerk for the district which comprises or includes the county borough of Dublin, who shall be the secretary of the said committee.

• (4) Four of the nominated members of the said committee shall be justices of the District Court nominated by the Minister for Justice, and one other of the said nominated members shall be a practising barrister nominated by the Council of the Bar of Saorstát Eireann, and two others of the said nominated members shall be practising solicitors nominated by the Council of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

• (5) Every nominated member of the said committee shall, unless he sooner dies, resigns, or ceases to be (as the case may be) a justice of the District Court, a practising barrister, or a practising solicitor, hold office as such member for five years from the date of his nomination.

• (6) A nominated member of the said committee whose membership thereof expires by effluxion of time shall be eligible for renomination.

• (7) The quorum of the said committee shall be four members.

• (8) The said committee may act notwithstanding one or more vacancies in its membership.

72 Rule-making authority for the District Court.

72.—Subject and without prejudice to the provisions of this Act in regard to the fees chargeable in court offices, the rule-making authority for the purposes of section 91 of the Principal Act shall be the District Court Rules Committee with the concurrence of the Minister for Justice.

73 Local Registration of Title Rules Committee.

73.—(1) There shall be and is hereby constituted a committee to be styled and in this Part of this Act referred to as the Local Registration of Title Rules Committee to fulfil the functions assigned to it by this Part of this Act.

• (2) The Local Registration of Title Rules Committee shall consist of two ex-officio members and two nominated members.

• (3) The ex-officio members of the said committee shall be—

• (a) the Judge of the High Court for the time being assigned to discharge the office of Judicial Commissioner of the Irish Land Commission, who shall be the chairman of the said committee;

• (b) the Registrar of Titles, who shall be the secretary of the said committee.

• (4) One of the nominated members of the said committee shall be a practising barrister nominated by the Council of the Bar of Saorstát Eireann, and the other of the said nominated members shall be a practising solicitor nominated by the Council of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

• (5) Every nominated member of the said committee shall, unless he sooner dies, resigns, or ceases to be (as the case may be) a practising barrister or a practising solicitor, hold office as such member for five years from the date of his nomination.

• (6) A nominated member of the said committee whose membership thereof expires by effluxion of time shall be eligible for renomination.

• (7) The quorum of the said committee shall be three members.

• (8) The said committee may act notwithstanding one vacancy in its membership.

74 Rules under the Local Registration of Title (Ireland) Act, 1891.

74.—From and after the passing of this Act, the power of making general rules conferred by section 94 of the Local Registration of Title (Ireland) Act, 1891, on the Land Judge with the approval of the Lord Chancellor shall be exercisable only by the Local Registration of Title Rules Committee with the concurrence of the Minister for Justice.

75 Reports by rule-making committees.

75.—(1) The secretary of each of the several committees established by this Part of this Act shall summon a meeting of such committee once at least in every year on such day as may be fixed by the chairman of such committee, for the purpose of the general consideration by such committee of the practice, procedure, and administration of the court in relation to which such committee is constituted and the law affecting or administered by such court or, in the case of the Local Registration of Title Rules Committee, the practice, procedure, and administration under the Local Registration of Title (Ireland) Act, 1891, and the operation and effect of that Act.

• (2) As soon as conveniently may be after every meeting of any such committee in pursuance of this section, such committee shall report to the Minister whether any and if so what amendments or alterations should, in the opinion of such committee, be made in the practice, procedure, or administration of the court in relation to which such committee is constituted or in the law affecting or administered by such court with a view to the improvement of the administration of justice or, in the case of the Local Registration of Title Rules Committee, in the practice, procedure, and administration under the Local Registration of Title (Ireland) Act, 1891, with a view to the improvement of the operation of that Act.

PART VII. Miscellaneous Provisions.

76 Duration of imprisonment for non-payment of revenue penalty.

76.—Where any person was or shall be committed to prison (whether before or after the passing of this Act) by a justice of the District Court for non-payment of a penalty incurred under an Act relating to a tax or duty under the care and management of the Revenue Commissioners and the Revenue Commissioners have by law power to order the discharge of such person from prison, the Revenue Commissioners are hereby authorised and required on the passing of this Act or at the expiration of six months from the date of the committal of such person to prison (whichever is the later), to order the discharge of such person from prison, whether the penalty for the non-payment of which such person was so committed to prison shall or shall not have been paid.

77 Payments to judges, etc., for recoupment of expenses.

77.—There shall be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas, to judges of the Supreme Court, the High Court, and the Circuit Court, to justices of the District Court, and to Commissioners of the High Court on Circuit such sums (in addition to remuneration) by way of recoupment of expenses incurred in travelling or otherwise for the purpose of the execution of their respective offices as the Minister for Justice, with the sanction of the Minister for Finance, shall from time to time determine.

78 Liability of unsuccessful defendant for costs of successful defendant.

78.—Where, in a civil proceeding in any court, there are two or more defendants and the plaintiff succeeds against one or more of the defendants and fails against the others or other of the defendants, it shall be lawful for the Court, if having regard to all the circumstances it thinks proper so to do, to order that the defendant or defendants against whom the plaintiff has succeeded shall (in addition to the plaintiff's own costs) pay to the plaintiff by way of recoupment the costs which the plaintiff is liable to pay and pays to the defendant or defendants against whom he has failed.

79 Clearing of Court at certain trials.

79.—Whenever a person is being tried in any Court on a charge of having committed an offence which is, in the opinion of the judge or justice presiding at such trial, of an indecent or obscene nature, it shall be lawful for such judge or justice, if he thinks proper so to do in the interests of public morality, to exclude from such Court during the whole or any particular part of such trial all persons except the said judge or justice, the accused, the officers of such Court and other persons present at such trial in an official capacity, all persons engaged or concerned in such trial in any capacity, every person who satisfies the judge or justice that he is a bona fide representative of the Press and is present as such representative, and such other persons as the said judge or justice shall, at his discretion, permit to remain in such Court.

80 Person standing mute.

80.—Whenever a person charged in the Central Criminal Court or in the Circuit Court with any crime or offence stands mute when called upon to plead to such charge, no jury shall be sworn for the trial of the issue whether such person so stands mute of malice or by the visitation of God, but in lieu thereof the Judge shall himself hear such evidence (if any) relevant to that issue as may then and there be adduced before him and, if the Judge is satisfied on such evidence that such person is mute by the visitation of God, all such consequences shall ensue as would have ensued if a jury sworn for the purpose had found that such person was so mute by the visitation of God, but if the Judge is not satisfied as aforesaid or if no such evidence is so adduced, the Judge shall direct a plea of “not guilty” to be entered for such person.

81 Prohibition of imitation of court documents.

81.—(1) It shall not be lawful for any person to issue, send, give, or deliver to or serve on or cause to be issued, sent, given or delivered to or served on any other person any document not issued under lawful authority which by its form, contents, or appearance is calculated or is reasonably likely to lead the person receiving it to believe that it is issued by lawful authority.

• (2) Every person who issues, sends, gives, delivers or serves or causes to be issued, sent given, delivered, or served any document in contravention of this section shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.

• (3) In this section the expression “issued by lawful authority” means issued by, from, or by order of any Court of Justice or any judge or justice of any such Court or by or from any officer of or office attached to any such Court.

PART VIII. Amendment of Certain Enactments.

82 Amendment of section 53 of the Dublin Police Act, 1842.

82.—Section 53 of the Dublin Police Act, 1842, is hereby amended by the deletion from the said section of the words “any of the divisional justices”, and the insertion in the said section of the words “a justice of the District Court” in lieu of the words so deleted, and the said section shall be construed and have effect accordingly, and the said section as so amended shall have effect throughout Saorstát Eireann.

83 Amendment of the Fatal Accidents Act, 1846.

83.—(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Fatal Accidents Act, 1846, any action under that Act may with the consent of all parties to such action be heard and determined by a judge without a jury, and when any such action is so heard section 2 of the said Act shall be construed and have effect as if the word “judge” were substituted therein for the word “jury” wherever that word occurs and such further modifications were made in the said section as may be necessary in consequence of such substitution.

• (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 2 of the Fatal Accidents Act, 1846, the amount recovered in any action under that Act shall (after deducting the costs not recovered from the defendant) be divided, in pursuance of the said section 2, amongst the parties mentioned in that section in such shares as the judge before or by whom such action is tried shall determine and direct.

84 Amendment of section 86 of the Probates and Letters of Administration Act (Ireland), 1857.

84.—(1) Section 86 of the Probates and Letters of Administration Act (Ireland), 1857, is hereby repealed and in lieu thereof it is hereby enacted as follows, that is to say:—

• (a) every person (with the exceptions hereinafter mentioned) to whom any grant of administration shall be committed shall give a bond to the President of the High Court to inure for the benefit of the President of the High Court for the time being, and, if the Court or (in the case of a grant from the district registry) the district registrar shall so require, with one or more surety or sureties, conditioned for duly collecting, getting in, and administering the personal estate of the deceased and so much of the real estate of the deceased as shall by law devolve to and vest in his legal personal representative;

• (b) the said bond shall be in such form as the President of the High Court shall, by any special or general order, direct;

• (c) it shall not be necessary for the Chief State Solicitor or the Solicitor for the Attorney-General to give any such bond as aforesaid when applying for or obtaining administration to the use or benefit of the State.

• (2) Paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of the foregoing sub-section of this section shall be read as one with the Probates and Letters of Administration Act (Ireland), 1857, and shall be construed accordingly, and references in that Act or in rules of court to the bond required by section 86 of that Act shall be construed as references to the bond required by the said paragraph (a).

85 Amendment of section 9 of the Summary Jurisdiction (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1871.

85.—Section 9 of the Summary Jurisdiction (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1871, is hereby amended by the deletion from the said section of the words “any of the divisional justices of the police district of Dublin Metropolis presiding in one of the public courts of the said district”, and the insertion in the said section of the words “a justice of the District Court” in lieu of the words so deleted, and the said section shall be construed and have effect accordingly, and the said section as so amended shall have effect throughout Saorstát Eireann.

86 Amendment of section 14 of the Agricultural Credit Act, 1929.

86.—(1) Sub-section (1) of section 14 of the Agricultural Credit Act, 1929 (No. 30 of 1929), is hereby amended by the deletion therefrom of paragraph (e) thereof.

• (2) The amendment of sub-section (1) of section 14 of the Agricultural Credit Act, 1929, made by the foregoing sub-section of this section shall have effect as from the passing of the said Act and accordingly the said section 14 shall be construed and have effect and be deemed always to have had effect with and subject to such amendment.

FIRST SCHEDULE. Enactments Repealed.

PART I.

Enactments Repealed as from the Passing of this Act.

Part II.

Enactments Repealed as from the Commencement of Part IV of this Act.

SECOND SCHEDULE. Appeal Towns.