Petty Sessions Clerk (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1907

PETTY SESSIONS CLERK (IRELAND) AMENDMENT ACT 1907

CHAPTER 22.

An Act to amend the Law relating to Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland. [21st August 1907.]

BE it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Extension to assistants of clerks of 21 & 22 Vict. c. 100. s 12.

1.(1) All the provisions of section twelve of the Petty Sessions Clerk (Ireland) Act, 1858, and of any enactment amending the same, with reference to the gratuities or pensions which may be given to petty sessions clerks retiring from office through age or infirmity, shall apply to the assistants of the clerks of petty sessions at Cork and Belfast appointed or hereafter to be appointed pursuant to the provisions of section ten of the said Act and approved of by the Lord Lieutenant.

(2) The power of making rules conferred on the Lord Lieutenant by section twenty-nine of the said Act shall extend to the making of rules respecting the qualifications, salaries, and appointment of any such assistants hereafter to be appointed and respecting the removal of any such assistants, whether existing or hereafter to be appointed.

Short title and construction.

2. This Act shall be read and construed as one with the Petty Sessions Clerk (Ireland) Act, 1858, and the Acts amending the same, and may be cited as the Petty Sessions Clerk (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1907.