Enforcement of Law (Occasional Powers) Act, 1924

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Appointment of fees to be charged by or paid to under-sheriffs and others.

15.—(1) The Minister may by order appoint and from time to time revise a scale of the fees to be charged by and paid to under-sheriffs, bailiffs and other persons for their services in or about the execution of writs of fieri facias and writs of habere and in or about the execution of decrees (whether for debt, possession of land or otherwise) of Civil Bill Courts.

(2) The fees specified in any scale of fees appointed under this section shall be in lieu of and substitution for the fees now by law chargeable by or payable to under-sheriffs, bailiffs and other persons for the like service, and every enactment relating to the payment or recovery of the fees now chargeable or payable as aforesaid shall apply to the fees which shall respectively be chargeable or payable under such scale as aforesaid as fully as same now applies to the fees now chargeable and payable as aforesaid.

(3) Every power which at the passing of this Act is vested in any person, body or authority to appoint or regulate the fees to be charged by or paid to under-sheriffs, bailiffs and other persons shall be suspended and incapable of being exercised while this Act is in force.

(4) Every scale of fees appointed or revised by the Minister under this section shall be published in the Iris Oifigiúil and primâ facie evidence of every or any such scale may be given in all Courts of Justice and in all legal proceedings by the production of a copy of the Iris Oifigiúil purporting to contain such scale or by the production of a copy of such scale purporting to be printed under the superintendence or authority of the Stationery Office of the Government of Saorstát Eireann.