Courts and Court Officers Act, 2002

• Permanent Page URL

PART 1

Preliminary and General

Short title, commencement, construction and collective citation.

1.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Courts and Court Officers Act, 2002.

(2) Sections 13 to 21 shall come into operation on such day or days as the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform may appoint by order or orders either generally or with reference to any particular provision and different days may be so appointed for different provisions, but those sections or any provision of them shall not apply in relation to proceedings in any court instituted before the day so appointed in respect of the section concerned or the provision concerned.

(3) Sections 22 , 29 and 46 shall come into operation on such day or days as the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform may appoint by order or orders either generally or with reference to any particular provision and different days may be so appointed for different provisions.

(4) Section 31 shall be deemed to have come into operation on the 1st day of January, 2002.

(5) Section 39 to 43 shall be deemed to have come into operation on the 9th day of November, 1999.

(6) The provisions of this Act, insofar as they amend the Courts (Supplemental Provisions) Acts, 1961 to 2000, shall be construed as one with those Acts, and those provisions, the Courts (No. 2) Act, 1991 , and those Acts may be cited together as the Courts (Supplemental Provisions) Acts, 1961 to 2002.

(7) The provisions of this Act, insofar as they amend the Court Officers Acts, 1926 to 1999, shall be construed as one with those Acts, and those provisions and those Acts may be cited together as the Court Officers Acts, 1926 to 2002.