Courts of Justice Act, 1936
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Appointment of persons to act temporarily as additional justices of the District Court. |
51.—(1) Whenever it appears to the Executive Council that, owing to the temporary absence from duty for any cause of a justice of the District Court or an unusual and temporary increase in the business of the District Court in any district or any other cause, it is necessary, in order to prevent the work of the District Court getting into arrear either generally or in any particular districts or district, to increase temporarily the number of the justices of the District Court, one or more persons who are practising barristers or solicitors of six years' standing at least at the date of appointment may be appointed to act as a justice or justices of the District Court for such period as the Executive Council shall think proper in respect of each such person. | |
(2) Every person appointed under this section to act as a justice of the District Court may, during the period for which he is so appointed, be assigned by the Minister for Justice from time to time as occasion requires to any district, and every such person shall while so assigned to a district have, in relation to such district and concurrently with the justice permanently assigned to such district, all the privileges, powers, and duties for the time being conferred or imposed by law on the justice permanently assigned to such district. | ||
(3) Every person appointed under this section to act as a justice of the District Court shall, during the period for which he is so appointed, be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas such remuneration as the Minister for Justice shall, with the sanction of the Minister for Finance, determine. | ||
(4) Every person appointed under section 76 of the Principal Act to be a temporary assistant justice of the District Court who, at the passing of this Act, is holding office under such appointment shall continue to hold such office for the duration of such appointment in all respects as if this section had been in force at the date of such appointment and such appointment had been made thereunder. |