Family Courts Act 2024
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PART 4 Family Circuit Court | ||
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Chapter 1 Establishment, jurisdiction and proceedings of Family Circuit Court | ||
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Establishment and constitution of Family Circuit Court | ||
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19. Section 4 of the Courts (Establishment and Constitution) Act 1961 is amended— | ||
(a) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (1): | ||
“(1A) On the coming into operation of section 19 of the Family Courts Act 2024, there shall stand established a division of the Circuit Court to be known as ‘an Chúirt Chuarda Teaghlaigh’ (‘the Family Circuit Court’).”, | ||
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(b) in subsection (2)— | ||
(i) by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (a): | ||
“(aa) a judge who shall be styled ‘an Príomh-Bhreitheamh den Chúirt Chuarda Teaghlaigh’ (‘the Principal Judge of the Family Circuit Court’),”, | ||
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(ii) by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (b): | ||
“(b) such number of ordinary judges (each of whom shall be styled ‘Breitheamh den Chúirt Chuarda’ (‘Judge of the Circuit Court’) as may from time to time be fixed by Act of the Oireachtas and, from among those Judges of the Circuit Court, such number of judges (each of whom shall, while so acting, be styled ‘Breitheamh den Chúirt Chuarda Teaghlaigh’) (‘Judge of the Family Circuit Court’) as may from time to time be fixed by Act of the Oireachtas, and”. |