Enforcement of Law (Occasional Powers) Act, 1924
|
Part I. POWERS OF UNDER-SHERIFF. | ||
|
Appointment of under-sheriffs. |
1.—(1) For the purpose of the application of section 11 of the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 (No. 2 of 1922) to section 1 of the Sheriffs (Ireland) Act, 1920 , the Minister shall be deemed to be the Minister or authority exercising in Saorstát Eireann functions the same as or corresponding to the functions which prior to the 6th day of December, 1921, were exercised by the Lord Lieutenant under the said section 1 of the Sheriffs (Ireland) Act, 1920 , and accordingly all the powers conferred by the said section 1 shall be vested in and exercisable by the Minister. | |
(2) No oath of office or other oath shall be administered to or required to be taken by any person appointed after the passing of this Act to be under-sheriff, but in lieu thereof every person so appointed shall before entering on his office subscribe and make a solemn declaration in a form to be prescribed by an order of the Minister that he will duly perform the duties of his office, and section 14 of the Statute 12 George I., c. 4 (Irish), shall be read as if the making by every under-sheriff of the Declaration so to be prescribed were substituted for the taking of the Oath prescribed by that section and for the making of the Declaration prescribed by the Sheriffs (Ireland) Adaptation of Enactments Order, 1922. |