Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1887

Part IV.

Miscellaneous.

Rules, orders, &c., fees, costs, and charges.

40 & 41 Vict. c. 57.

44 & 45 Vict. c. 46.

40 & 41 Vict. c. 56.

33.—(1) In the case of the High Court the powers of making rules and orders, and of prescribing forms, and of regulating the mode of proving the service, and of proving the date of service of notices under this Act, and of determining the persons upon whom notices under this Act are to be served, and for prescribing anything by this Act authorised to be prescribed, shall be from time to time exercised by the authority and in the manner prescribed by the sixty-first section of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act (Ireland), 1877, and in that section, for the purposes of rules under this Act, the Lord Chancellor and the other judges therein referred to, or any four of them with the Lord Chancellor, shall be substituted for the judges therein referred to.

In the case of the Land Commission, rules may be made in the manner provided by the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881.

In the case of the county court, the above-mentioned powers shall from time to time be exercised by the authority and in the manner prescribed by section seventy-nine of the County Officers and Courts (Ireland) Act, 1877.

(2) The authority mentioned in the eighty-fourth section of the County Officers and Courts (Ireland) Act, 1877, shall amend the existing scale of fees, costs, and charges to be paid to counsel and solicitors in ejectments for nonpayment of rent in the Civil Bill Courts, so that the total fees, costs, and charges in any such ejectment as between party and party shall, so far as may be practicable and reasonable, not exceed the total fees, costs, and charges between party and party according to the scale for the time being in force of such fees, costs, and charges in ordinary civil bills, as if such ejectment were an ordinary civil bill and the annual rent of the holding for which such ejectment is brought was the amount sued for or recovered respectively in such ordinary civil bill. Such amended scale of fees, costs, and charges may be amended from time to time by the same authority if in practice it is found to be insufficient.