Judgments Registry (Ireland) Act, 1871

Power for Lord Chancellor, Lord Chief Justice, Lord Chief Justice of Common Pleas, Lord Chief Baron, and Master of the Rolls to make General Orders to carry out the Act;

and with consent of Treasury to abolish and reduce stamp duties.

9. It shall be lawful for the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice, the Master of the Rolls, the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland, or for any three of them, from time to time to make such general orders as shall to them seem fit, in relation to the books wherein shall be entered, by the said registrar, the particulars contained in any memorandum left with him for the registry or re-entry of any judgment, revival, decree, rule, order, lis pendens, or civil bill decree for poor rates, or for the registry or re-docketing of any recognizance, Crown bond, judgment at the suit of the Crown, statute, inquisition, or acceptance of office; and also in relation to the form of verbiage of all memorandums and requisitions authorized or directed by any Act of Parliament to be left with the said registrar, and to the material on which same shall be written or printed, and to the size of such material; and also by and with the consent of the Treasury to abolish or reduce the amount of stamp duty to be paid on any of the requisitions or matters set forth in Schedule C. to this Act annexed; and if it should be deemed proper, with the like consent again from time to time to revive or increase any of the duties so reduced, but not beyond the respective amounts in the said schedule set forth; and generally in relation to the conduct of business in the office of the said registrar and the duties of the said registrar and the other officers in his office, and from time to time to annul, alter, or vary such general orders.