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Lord lieutenant, with advice of privy council, may direct that certain courts may transact business in a court house of adjoining county.
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[1.] It shall be lawful to and for the lord lieutenant, by and with the advice of the privy council, to order or direct that the court of quarter sessions, civil bill court, court for registration of votes, or other court to be holden before any justice of the peace or assistant barrister for any county in Ireland shall hold its sittings, and do and transact all the business, civil and criminal, of such court, in any court house situate in a county adjoining to the county for which such court may be so holden, and not distant more than one mile from the common boundary thereof; and such court shall thereupon have power to use such court house for all or any of the purposes aforesaid, and to cause to come and call before it therein all sheriffs, gaolers, clerks of the crown and peace, and other officers and ministers of justice of or belonging to the county for which such court may be holden; and all jurors, witnesses, parties, and persons shall be bound to attend such court at such court house; and any prisoners committed or remanded by such court or attending such court, for trial, may be lawfully confined, under the order of such court, or for the space of twenty-four hours previously to its sitting, in any prison or place of confinement at a convenient distance from such court house in the county in which such court house is situate, although such court shall be then held or such sitting as aforesaid shall be had for the adjoining county; and all matters and things whatsoever done by such court in such court house under the authority of this Act shall be valid and effectual in the law to all intents and purposes whatsoever, as if the same were done and transacted in some court house situate within the county to which the same may relate; and all sheriffs and other persons having the custody or charge of any such court house shall, at all times when required, permit the use thereof for the purposes of this Act.
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