Dáil Eireann Courts (Winding-Up) Act, 1923

Certain cases may be heard by an Assistant Commissioner.

6.—(1) Any of the applications following may, in lieu of being made to the Commissioners, be made to an Assistant Commissioner, that is to say:—

(a) any application for the hearing and determination of a proceeding which was pending in a Dáil Parish Court or a Dáil District Court when the authority of such Court was withdrawn;

(b) any application for the hearing and determination of an appeal from a Dáil Parish Court which was pending in a Dáil District Court when the authority of such Court was withdrawn;

(c) any appeal from a registered decree of a Dáil Parish Court or of an ordinary sitting of a Dáil District Court;

(d) any interlocutory application in any of the above-mentioned cases.

(2) An Assistant Commissioner when hearing any case or application under this section shall have the same powers and authorities as the Commissioners would have under this Act when hearing a like case or application, and all the provisions of this Act in relation to the registration and enforcement of orders of the Commissioners shall apply to orders made by an Assistant Commissioner under this section.

(3) Any person aggrieved by an order of an Assistant Commissioner under this section and who was a party to the proceedings in which such order was made or is otherwise bound by such order, may appeal within the prescribed time and in the prescribed manner from such order to the Commissioners, who shall thereupon hear and determine such appeal.

This sub-section shall not apply to orders made in matters which were pending in a Dáil Parish Court when the authority of such Court was withdrawn or to orders made on appeal from a decree of a Dáil Parish Court.