No. 16/1934:

COUNTY REGISTRARS (LAND COMMISSION) REGULATIONS, 1934.

COUNTY REGISTRARS (LAND COMMISSION) REGULATIONS, 1934.

WHEREAS the Minister for Justice has, by virtue of subsection (3) of section 28 of the Land Act, 1933 , (No. 38 of 1933), power to make regulations prescribing the notices to be served and the acts to be done by a county registrar or an under-sheriff before proceeding to levy money under a warrant issued by the Land Commission under that section :

NOW, THEREFORE, I, PATRICK J. RUTTLEDGE, Minister for Justice, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by subsection (3) of section 28 of the Land Act, 1933 (No. 38 of 1933), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, do hereby make the following regulations, that is to say :—

1. These Regulations may be cited for all purposes as the County Registrars (Land Commission) Regulations, 1934.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1923 (No. 46 of 1923), applies to the interpretation of these regulations in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

3. In the application of these regulations in relation to a county for which there is for the time being an under-sheriff, these regulations shall have effect as if the word " under-sheriff " were substituted for the expression " county registrar " throughout these regulations.

4. Immediately upon receipt from the Land Commission of a warrant issued under section 28 of the Land Act, 1933 (No. 38 of 1933), the county registrar shall serve by post on the defaulter named in such warrant a notice in the form set forth in the Schedule hereto or in a form to the same effect informing such defaulter of the issue of such warrant and giving him fifteen days' notice of the execution of such warrant.

5. If within fifteen days after the service of the said notice on a defaulter, such defaulter lodges with the county registrar a written declaration by such defaulter stating either that he does not owe the amount stated in such notice to be due by him or that he is not the person liable to pay the said amount, the county registrar shall transmit such declaration and the relevant warrant to the Land Commission and await the instructions of the Land Commission in regard thereto.

GIVEN under my Seal of Office, this 1st day of February, 1934.

PATRICK J. RUTTLEDGE,

Minister for Justice.

S. A. ROCHE.

SCHEDULE.

OFFICE OF THE COUNTY REGISTRAR,

I hereby give you Notice that a Warrant under section 28 of the Land Act, 1933 , has been issued to me by the Land Commission for the collection of £......... due by you under the Land Purchase Acts to the........day of.....................……….. in respect of your holding at............................................................ ....................….. Receivable Order No.................................

Unless within fifteen days after the service of this Notice on you, you either—

(a) pay to me at the above office the sum of £....…………......, being the said sum of £...………............. , together with £..…................for fees as specified at the foot hereof, or

(b) lodge in the above office a written declaration by you stating that you do not owe the said sum of £...………............. , or

(c) lodge in the above office a written declaration by you stating that you are not the person who is liable to pay the said sum of £...................

I will proceed, immediately upon the expiration of the said fifteen days, to levy by distraint under the said warrant the said sum of £.............…..... and such costs and fees as are by law leviable therewith.