Court Officers (Amendment) Act, 1937
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Allocation of business in Dublin by the senior justice. |
5.—(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 47 of the Principal Act or any appointment of a place or of a day or hour made or deemed by this Act to have been made under that section before the passing of this Act, it shall be lawful for the senior of the justices of the District Court for the time being assigned to the Dublin district (in this section referred to as the senior justice) to determine from time to time the class or classes of business of the District Court to be transacted in each of the several places in the Dublin district court area for the time being appointed under the said section 47 for the transaction of any class of the business of the District Court, and it shall also be lawful for the senior justice to determine from time to time the days and hours at which the several classes of such business shall be respectively transacted in the several places so determined. | |
(2) Whenever after the passing of this Act the Minister appoints under section 47 of the Principal Act a place in the Dublin district court area for the transaction of all or any classes of the business of the District Court or any day or hour for the transaction of any class or classes of such business in any such place, such appointment shall either, as the Minister shall direct when making such appointment, be made in substitution for and overriding the powers conferred on the senior justice by this section or be made subject and without prejudice to those powers and any exercise thereof by such senior justice |