Court Officers Act, 1926

PART I.

The Supreme Court and the High Court.

Offices and principal officers.

3.—(1) There shall be attached to the High Court, the Supreme Court, and the Chief Justice respectively the following offices, that is to say:—

To the High Court,

The Central Office,

The Taxing-Master's Office,

The Probate Office,

The Bankruptcy Office,

The Examiner's Office,

The Accountant's Office;

To the Supreme Court,

The Office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court;

To the Chief Justice,

The Office of the Registrar to the Chief Justice.

(2) There shall be attached to the High Court, the Supreme Court, and the Chief Justice respectively the following officers (in this Part of this Act collectively referred to as principal officers), that is to say:—

To the High Court,

A Master who shall be styled the Master of the High Court,

Such number of Taxing-Masters as the Minister shall, with the sanction of the Minister for Finance, from time to time determine,

A Probate Officer,

A Registrar in Bankruptcy,

An Official Assignee in Bankruptcy,

An Examiner,

An Accountant;

To the Supreme Court,

A Registrar;

To the Chief Justice,

A Registrar.

(3) The Master of the High Court and the Taxing-Masters shall be appointed by the Executive Council and every other of the said principal officers shall be appointed by the Minister, and all the said principal officers (including the Master of the High Court and the Taxing-Masters) shall hold office at the pleasure of the Executive Council.

(4) No principal officer nor any officer for the time being nominated to be a registrar of the High Court shall be removed from his office without the concurrence of the Chief Justice and the President of the High Court.

(5) Subject to the persons respectively appointed thereto being in good health at the time of appointment, the offices of the Master of the High Court and of the Taxing-Masters shall be pensionable offices within the Superannuation Acts for the time being in force and there may be granted either to those officers themselves on retirement or to their legal personal representatives on death such superannuation and other allowances or gratuities as might under the Superannuation Acts for the time being in force have been granted had they been appointed to the permanent Civil Service of Saorstát Eireann with certificates from the Civil Service Commissioners.

(6) The Master of the High Court and every Taxing-Master shall retire from office on attaining the age of seventy years, but such age of retirement may, in the case of any Taxing-Master who was immediately before the commencement of this Part of this Act a Taxing-Master attached to the High Court, be extended by the Minister with the concurrence of the Minister for Finance to any age not exceeding seventy-five years.