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Lord lieutenant may establish a new police office, and appoint two persons as justices for the police district of Dublin metropolis constituted by 48 Geo. 3. c. 140.
Justices need not have any qualification by estate.
Justices not to act at quarter sessions, &c.
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[1.] It shall be lawful for the lord lieutenant to cause a new police office to be established in the city of Dublin, and by warrant under his hand and seal to appoint two fit persons as justices of the peace for and of the police district of Dublin metropolis, as the same is constituted and defined in and by an Act made in the forty-eighth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George tlie Third, intituled “An Act for the more effectual administration of the office of a justice of the peace, and for the more effectual prevention of felonies, within the district of Dublin metropolis, and for and of the counties of Dublin, Wicklow, Kildare, and Meath,” and of all liberties therein, to execute the duties of a justice of the peace at the said office, and in all parts of those several counties, and the liberties therein, and of said district, together with such other duties as shall be herein-after specified, or as shall be from time to time directed by the chief secretary, or in his absence by the under secretary for the time being, for the more efficient administration of the police within the said limits; and it shall be lawful for the said lord lieutenant to remove either of the said justices, if he shall see occasion so to do, and upon any vacancy in the said office by death, removal, or otherwise, to appoint another fit person as a justice of the peace of the said district, counties, and liberties, to execute the duties aforesaid, in lieu of the person making such vacancy; and it shall be lawful so to appoint any person to be a justice of the peace by virtue of this Act, and for such person, during the continuance of his appointment, to execute the duties of a justice of the peace for the said district and counties and liberties, although he may not have any such qualification by estate as is required by law in the case of any other person being a justice of the peace for any county: Provided always, that no such person shall act as a justice of the peace at any court of general or quarter sessions, nor in any matter out of sessions, except for the preservation of the peace, the prevention of crimes, the detection and committal of offenders, and in carrying into execution the purposes of this Act.
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