Family Courts Act 2024
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Power to create, vary and abolish Family District Court districts for Family District Court | ||
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45. The Act of 1953 is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 26B (inserted by section 40 ): | ||
“Power to create, vary and abolish Family District Court districts for Family District Court | ||
26C. (1) The Courts Service may, following consultation with the President of the District Court and the Principal Judge of the Family District Court, by order— | ||
(a) divide the Family Circuit Court circuits created under section 20A (inserted by section 26 of the Act of 2024) of the Courts (Supplemental Provisions) Act 1961 into geographical districts (in this Act referred to as ‘Family District Court districts’) that are convenient for the conduct of the business of the Family District Court, and | ||
(b) attach to each Family District Court district a name by which it shall be known. | ||
(2) The Courts Service may, following consultation with the President of the District Court and the Principal Judge of the Family District Court, by order— | ||
(a) vary or abolish a Family District Court district, | ||
(b) create a new Family District Court district and attach to the district a name by which it shall be known, and | ||
(c) where it considers it appropriate to do so, change the name by which a Family District Court district is known. | ||
(3) Where the Courts Service makes an order under subsection (2), it may make provision for the continuation and completion of any business transacted in a Family District Court district to which the order relates which is initiated before the commencement of the order and is not completed before such commencement. | ||
(4) For the purposes of subsection (3), business transacted shall be regarded as being initiated on the day on which the summons, notice of application or other originating document is issued. | ||
(5) The abolition of a Family District Court district under subsection (2) shall operate to terminate any assignment then in force of a judge of the Family District Court and the judge concerned may be assigned by the President of the District Court to another Family District Court district or to a district court district. | ||
(6) Every order made under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the order is passed by either such House within the next 21 days on which that House sits after the order is laid before it, the order shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.”. |