Dáil Eireann Courts (Winding-Up) Act, 1923

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Commissioners to make and publish rules.

21.—(1) The Commissioners shall as soon as conveniently may be after their appointment make and publish rules regulating their procedure and may by such rules prescribe the forms to be used in proceedings before them.

(2) The Commissioners shall by such rules prescribe the number of Commissioners who shall form a quorum for the hearing of different classes of cases, but so that no appeal from a decree of a circuit sitting of a Dáil Court or of the Supreme Dáil Court shall be heard by less than two Commissioners, and so that no appeal from a Commissioner or an Assistant Commissioner shall be heard by less than two Commissioners, and so that no Commissioner who was a judge of a Dáil Court shall sit to hear an appeal from a decree made by himself alone or (so far as is physically possible having regard to the number of Commissioners available) an appeal from a decree of a Dáil Court of which he was a member.

(3) The Commissioners shall by such rules regulate the procedure of Assistant Commissioners and the conduct of proceedings before an Assistant Commissioner and may by such rules prescribe the forms to be used in such proceedings.

(4) A quorum prescribed by rules made under this section may consist of one person.