Courts (Supplemental Provisions) Act, 1961

Principal Justices of the Dublin Metropolitan District.

38.—(1) Each person who was nominated under subsection (1) of section 6 (repealed by this Act) of the Act of 1946 to be a Principal Justice of a Division of the Dublin Metropolitan Justices and who is appointed under subsection (1) of section 29 of this Act to be a justice of the District Court shall hold the office of Principal Justice of the Dublin Metropolitan District (to which District such person shall be permanently assigned by the Government) and shall hold that office so long as he holds the office of justice of the District Court.

(2) Where a person who holds the office of Principal Justice of the Dublin Metropolitan District ceases to hold that office, that office, in so far as it was held by that person, shall stand abolished.