County Officers and Courts (Ireland) Act, 1877

Fees to be paid to Treasury after union of offices.

21. The Lord Lieutenant, by and with the advice and consent of the Privy Council of Ireland, may from time to time make orders, and when made may revoke alter or amend the same, and may make new orders instead of any orders revoked, fixing a scale or scales according to which all or any expenses and remuneration heretofore presentable and payable to any Clerk of the Peace for carrying into effect the provisions of the Acts relating to the registration of voters, or otherwise in respect of such registration, shall be calculated, and may, as well in respect of the matters aforesaid, as also in fixing any scale or scales of remuneration of Clerks of the Peace under the provisions of the Juries (Ireland) Acts, provide that any actual expenses shall be distinguished from any profits or remuneration presentable to and receivable by any Clerk of the Peace for his own use for on in respect of any duties imposed upon him by any Act relating to the registration of voters, or by the Juries (Ireland) Acts; and thereupon all such expenses and such profits and remuneration shall in each case be separately calculated presented and paid according to the scale or scales so fixed, and for the time being in force, and not otherwise, and the respective accounts thereof shall be audited and vouched as the Lord Lieutenant in Council may by order provide.

After the union of offices of Clerk of the Crown and Clerk of the Peace for any county or borough, the amount of all profits and remuneration which, but for the passing of this Act, would have been presentable to and receivable by any Clerk of the Peace for his own use for or in respect of any duties imposed on him by any of the said Acts shall be presented to and receivable by Her Majesty's Exchequer; but notwithstanding such union the amount of all such actual expenses as aforesaid shall continue to be presented and paid in the same manner as theretofore.

From and after the union of the offices of Clerk of the Crown and Clerk of the Peace for any county or borough, all fees and emoluments (including the profits and remuneration presentable and payable under the next preceding provision) which, but for the passing of this Act, would be receivable by or payable to any Clerk of the Crown or Clerk of the Peace or Registrar of Civil Bills whose office shall have been included in such union, and all other fees and emoluments to be levied or paid under the provisions of this Act, shall be receivable by Her Majesty's Exchequer, and shall be collected and paid over in such manner as the Treasury from time to time shall direct; and the several provisions of any Act or Acts with respect to fixing and collecting fees taken in Civil Bill Courts, or by Clerks of the Crown or Clerks of the Peace or Registrars of Civil Bills, and to accounting for the same, and to paying the same into the receipt of Her Majesty's Exchequer, shall, so far as the same may be applicable, be applied to all fees and emoluments receivable by Her Majesty's Exchequer as aforesaid.