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Centralised court offices
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94. (1) Notwithstanding any other enactment, the Courts Service may designate any court office as a centralised court office.
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(2) The Courts Service shall, in designating a centralised court office under subsection (1), specify—
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(a) the business of each court office that—
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(i) may be transacted either in the centralised court office or that court office, or
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(ii) shall be transacted in the centralised court office only,
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and
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(b) the date from which such business may or shall, as the case may be, be transacted in the centralised court office concerned.
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(3) The Courts Service, at any time after designating a centralised court office under subsection (1)—
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(a) may—
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(i) vary the business that may or shall be transacted in the centralised court office, or
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(ii) revoke the designation,
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and
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(b) where it so varies the business or revokes the designation, shall specify the date on which the variation or revocation shall take effect.
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(4) Where a date is specified by the Courts Service in accordance with subsection (2)(b) or (3)(b) as a date from which a specified business shall or may be transacted in a centralised court office, such business shall or may, as the case may be, from that date be so transacted.
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(5) Where a date is specified by the Courts Service in accordance with subsection (3)(b) as a date from which—
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(a) a specified business shall no longer be transacted in a centralised court office, or
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(b) the designation of a centralised court office is revoked,
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such specified business or all specified business of the centralised court office, as the case may be, shall from that date be transacted in the court office in which it would have been transacted prior to the specification of such business.
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(6) The Courts Service may, in specifying a date for the purposes of subsection (2)(b) or (3)(b) in respect of a specified business, specify different dates for different categories of the specified business.
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(7) The Courts Service shall, as soon as may be after—
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(a) a centralised court office is designated and business specified in relation thereto,
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(b) the specified business of a centralised court office is varied, or
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(c) the designation of a centralised court office is revoked,
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publish notice of the designation, the business so specified or varied, or the revocation, as the case may be, in Iris Oifigiúil, but failure to so publish shall not affect the validity of the designation, specification, variation or revocation concerned.
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