Sheriffs (Ireland) Act, 1920

Remuneration of under-sheriffs.

6 & 7 Will. 4. c. 116.

5.(1) The salaries payable to sheriffs by county borough councils and county councils under section one hundred and ten of the Grand Jury (Ireland) Act, 1836, shall, in the case of under-sheriffs appointed under this Act, be annual salaries of the respective amounts specified in this section, which shall be deemed to include allowances for clerical assistance, and be payable to the said under-sheriffs as follows, namely:—

(a) to the under-sheriff of the county borough of Dublin, three hundred and fifty pounds;

(b) to the under-sheriff of every other county borough, two hundred and fifty pounds; and

(c) to the under-sheriff of every county, two hundred pounds;

and for the purposes of this provision the said section, as so amended, shall apply to the county borough of Dublin as well as to every other county borough.

(2) The following sums shall be paid annually out of moneys provided by Parliament to the under-sheriffs appointed under this Act:—

(a) to the under-sheriff of the county borough of Dublin, the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds;

(b) to the under-sheriff of every other county borough, the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds; and

(c) to the under-sheriff of every county, the sum of two hundred pounds.

(3) Where one person is appointed under this Act to be under-sheriff for two or more counties, the amount of the annual salary payable to him by the council of each of those counties shall be one hundred and fifty pounds, and the amount of the annual sum payable to him out of moneys provided by Parliament in respect of each county shall be one hundred and fifty pounds instead of the respective amounts specified in the foregoing provisions of this section.