S.I. No. 28/1929 - Juries (Panels For Trial of Criminal Issues in County Wicklow) Order, 1929.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1929. No. 28.

JURIES (PANELS FOR TRIAL OF CRIMINAL ISSUES IN COUNTY WICKLOW) ORDER, 1929.

WHEREAS by sub-section (3) of Section 33 of the Juries Act, 1927 (No. 23/1927), it is enacted that the Minister for Justice may, if and when he thinks fit, by order, made with the consent of the Judge of the Circuit Court assigned at the date of the order to the Circuit to which the order relates, direct that every criminal issue which is triable with a jury by a Judge of the Circuit Court sitting in a particular city or town (not being a county borough) shall be triable with a jury drawn from one or more specified jury districts in the county in which such city or town is situated, and so long as any such order is in force no such issue shall be tried by a Judge of the Circuit Court sitting in such city or town with any other jury:

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (3) of Section 1 of the said Juries Act, 1927 , that the Minister for Justice may by order, from time to time, as and when he shall think fit, divide any county into two or more jury districts, and that while any such order is in force each of the jury districts delimited thereby shall be a jury district for the purposes of the said Juries Act, 1927 :

AND WHEREAS the County of Wicklow has by an Order of even date herewith been divided into two Jury Districts—viz., No. 1 or Wicklow District, and the No. 2 or Baltinglass District:

AND WHEREAS the Judge of the Circuit Court, assigned at the date of this order to the Circuit to which this order relates has consented to the making of this order:

NOW I, JAMES FITZGERALD-KENNEY, Minister for Justice by virtue of the powers conferred upon me by sub-section (3) of Section 33 of the Juries Act, 1927 (No. 23 of 1927), and of every and any other power enabling me in that behalf, do hereby order as follows:—

1. This Order may be cited for all purposes as the Juries (Panels for Trial of Criminal Issues in Co. Wicklow) Order, 1929.

2. Every criminal issue which is triable with a jury by a Judge of the Circuit Court sitting in the town of Wicklow shall be triable with a jury drawn from the aforesaid No. 1, or Wicklow, Jury District, and every criminal issue which is triable with a jury by a Judge of the Circuit Court sitting in the town of Baltinglass shall be triable with a jury drawn from the aforesaid No. 2, or Baltinglass, Jury District.

GIVEN under my Seal of Office, this 21st day of June, 1929.

JAMES FITZGERALD-KENNEY,

Minister for Justice.