No. 309/1937:

CIRCUIT COURT (NEW CIRCUITS) ORDER, 1937.

CIRCUIT COURT (NEW CIRCUITS) ORDER, 1937.

WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection (1) of Section 13 of the Courts of Justice Act, 1936 (No. 48 of 1936) that as soon as conveniently may be after the passing of that Act the Executive Council shall by order do all of the following things, that is to say :—

(a) appoint a day to be the appointed day for the purpose of that section ;

(b) divide the several counties and county boroughs in Saorstát Éireann into nine convenient groups (in that section referred to as circuits) for the purposes of the Circuit Court, but subject to the limitations that one such circuit (to be known as the Dublin Circuit) shall consist of the county borough of Dublin and the county of Dublin, and that no county or county borough shall be divided between two or more circuits ;

(c) attach to every circuit, other than the Dublin Circuit, a convenient name or a number by which such circuit shall be known ;

(d) assign to the Dublin Circuit two of the judges of the Circuit Court holding office on the appointed day ;

(e) assign to each of the circuits other than the Dublin Circuit one of the judges of the Circuit Court holding office on the appointed day.

NOW, the Executive Council, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by Section 13 of the Courts of Justice Act, 1936 (No. 48 of 1936), and of every and another power them in this behalf enabling, do hereby order as follows:—

1. This Order may be cited as the Circuit Court (New Circuits Order, 1937.

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

3. The 1st day of January, 1938, is hereby appointed to be the appointed day for the purpose of Section 13 of the Courts of Justice Act, 1936 (No. 48 of 1936).

4. —(1) The several counties and county boroughs in Saorstat Eireann shall be and are hereby divided for the purposes of the Circuit Court into the nine groups (in this Order referred to as circuits) specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto.

(2) Each circuit shall be known by the name assigned thereto in the second column of the Schedule hereto opposite the mention of the said circuit in the said first column.

5. —(1) The two judges of the Circuit Court whose names are set out in the third column of the Schedule hereto opposite the mention of the Dublin Circuit in the second column thereof are hereby assigned to the Dublin Circuit.

(2) Each judge of the Circuit Court whose name is set out in the third column of the Schedule hereto, other than the judges who are, by virtue of the next preceding paragraph, assigned to the Dublin Circuit, is hereby assigned to the circuit named in the second column of the Schedule hereto opposite the name of the said Judge in the said third column.

SCHEDULE.

DUBLIN.

This 21st day of December, 1937.