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PART IX.
Administrative Provisions.
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Transfer of compensation for administration in another State.
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71.—(1) Where under any law from time to time in force in any other State compensation is payable in respect of injuries to workmen, it shall be lawful for the Executive Council to enter into a provisional arrangement with the Government of such other State whereby sums awarded in such other State under such law to persons resident or becoming resident in Saorstát Eireann may be transferred to and administered by the Judge of the Circuit Court appointed by Rules of Court and sums awarded in Saorstát Eireann as compensation under this Act to persons resident or becoming resident in such other State may be transferred to and administered by a competent authority in such other State.
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(2) Whenever any such provisional arrangement is entered into it shall be lawful for the Executive Council by order to give statutory effect to such provisional arrangement and thereupon such provisional arrangement shall, as from the date of such order or any later date specified in such order, but subject to the provisions of this section, have effect as if enacted in this section.
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(3) An order made by the Executive Council under this section shall only have effect by virtue of this section if and so long as the arrangement to which such order relates, in so far as it relates to the transfer of sums awarded in the other State with which such arrangement is made under the law relating to compensation in respect of injuries to workmen to persons resident or becoming resident in Saorstát Eireann to the Court in Saorstát Eireann, has the effect of law in such other State.
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(4) Whenever an order is made by the Executive Council under this section Rules of Court may provide—
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(a) for the transfer, in such manner as may be provided by the arrangement to which such order relates, to the State with which such arrangement is made of any money paid into Court under this Act and rules made thereunder, as applicable for the benefit of any person resident in or about to reside in such State;
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(b) for the receipt and administration by the Court of any money which under any such arrangement has been transmitted from such State as money applicable for the benefit of any person resident or about to reside in Saorstát Eireann.
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