District Justices (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1923
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Confirmation of appointments and acts of existing District Justices. |
9.—(1) Each of the persons named in the Third Schedule to this Act having been appointed under the Constabulary (Ireland) Act, 1836 (6 & 7 Will. IV., ch. 13), by the Governor-General of the Irish Free State to be a Magistrate under that Act shall be deemed to have been appointed and to be a District Justice under this Act. | |
(2) Every act, matter and thing done after the 28th day of October, 1922, by any of the said persons named in the Third Schedule to this Act in exercise or purported exercise of any authority purported to have been at the time of his doing such act, matter or thing vested in him by reason of his having been appointed or purported to have been appointed by the late Provisional Government of Ireland or any Minister thereof to be a District Justice shall notwithstanding any failure (whether by way of commission or omission) to comply with any statute, rule or order or any other irregularity be as valid and effective as if the same had been regularly done by a Magistrate duly appointed under the Constabulary (Ireland) Act, 1836 (6 & 7 Will. IV., ch. 13), or (in the case of acts, matters and things which are by law required to be done by two Magistrates sitting together) by two such Magistrates. | ||
(3) No action shall lie against and no penalty shall be incurred by any of the said persons named in the Third Schedule to this Act for or on account or in respect of any act, matter or thing done by any such person after the 28th day of October, 1922, in exercise or purported exercise of any such authority as is mentioned in the preceding sub-section or any failure (whether by way of commission or omission) to comply with the terms of any statute, rule or order or any other irregularity in the doing of such act, matter or thing. |