S.I. No. 5/1924 - Courts of Justice Act, 1924 (Commencement) Order, 1924


ORDER OF EXECUTIVE COUNCIL. 1924. No. 5.

THE COURTS OF JUSTICE ACT, 1924 (COMMENCEMENT) ORDER, 1924.

(IRISH FREE STATE)

The following Order, viz.:—The Courts of Justice Act, 1924 (Commencement) Order 1924 (No. 5 of 1924) has been made by the Executive Council.

DIARMUID O hEIGCEARTUIGH,

Rúnaí do'n Ard Chomhairle.

(Secretary to the Executive Council.)

DUBLIN.

This 4th day of June, 1924.

THE COURTS OF JUSTICE ACT, 1924 (COMMENCEMENT)

ORDER, 1924. (No. 5 of 1924.)

WHEREAS it is enacted by Section 2 of the Courts of Justice Act, 1924 (No. 10 of 1924) that that Act shall come into operation on such day or days as may be fixed therefor by any order or orders of the Executive Council, and that different days may be fixed for the commencement of the Act for different purposes.

AND WHEREAS it is expedient that the said Act should come into operation on the 5th day of June, 1924, for the purposes of Sections 1, 2, and 3, and Parts I. and IV. (except such provisions of Part IV. as relate only to the Circuit Court or the District Court) of the Act.

NOW the Executive Council in exercise of the power in that behalf conferred on them by the Courts of Justice Act, 1924 (No. 10 of 1924) and of every and any other power them in that behalf enabling do hereby order as follows:—

1. This Order may be cited as the Courts of Justice Act, 1924 (Commencement) Order, 1924. (No. 5 of 1924.)

2. The Interpretation Act, 1923 (No. 46 of 1923) applies to the interpretation of this Order in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

3. The 5th day of June, 1924, is hereby fixed and appointed as the day on which the Courts of Justice Act, 1924 (No. 10 of 1924) shall come into operation for the following purposes that is to say:—

(a) the purposes of Sections 1, 2 and 3 of the Act, and

(b) the purposes of Part I. of the Act, and

(c) the purposes of Part IV. (except such provisions thereof as relate only to the Circuit Court or the District Court) of the Act.

DUBLIN.

This 4th day of June, 1924.

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