Dublin Police Act, 1859

One commissioner to act in certain cases.

4. Anything authorized to be done by the commissioners by any Act herein recited, or by any other Act, may be done by either of the commissioners now holding office, and, after the commissioners shall have become chief commissioner and assistant commissioner, as herein provided, may be done by the the chief commissioner alone or in his absence by the assistant commissioner alone; provided, that to establish the validity of any act or thing done by the assistant commissioner it shall not be necessary to prove the absence of the chief commissioner.