Local Government (Dublin) Act, 1930

Coroners and under-sheriffs and Jurors Books in the City and County.

23.—(1) So long as the person who, at the passing of this Act, holds the office of coroner of North County Dublin continues to hold that office, his area of jurisdiction as such coroner shall continue as if this Act had not been passed, but upon his ceasing by death or otherwise to hold his said office so much of the added rural area as is included in his said area of jurisdiction shall, on such cesser or on the 1st day of April, 1931 (whichever is the later), be detached from his said area of jurisdiction and be added to and thenceforward included in the area of jurisdiction of the coroner of the City.

(2) So long as the person who, at the passing of this Act, holds the office of coroner of South County Dublin continues to hold that office, his area of jurisdiction as such coroner shall continue as if this Act had not been passed, but upon his ceasing by death or otherwise to hold his said office—

(a) the added urban districts shall, on such cesser or on the appointed day (whichever is the later), be detached from his said area of jurisdiction and be added to and thenceforward included in the area of jurisdiction of the coroner of the City, and

(b) so much of the added rural area as is included in his said area of jurisdiction shall, on such cesser or on the 1st day of April, 1931 (whichever is the later), be detached from his said area of jurisdiction and be added to and thenceforward included in the area of jurisdiction of the coroner of the City, and

(c) if and whenever, on or after such cesser or the appointed day (whichever is the later), there is a coroner duly appointed for the Borough, the Borough shall be detached from the area of jurisdiction of the coroner of South County Dublin.

(3) So long as the person who, at the passing of this Act, holds the office of under-sheriff of the County of Dublin continues to hold that office, his area of jurisdiction as such under-sheriff shall continue as if this Act had not been passed, but upon his ceasing by death or otherwise to hold his said office—

(a) the added urban districts shall, on such cesser or on the appointed day (whichever is the later), be detached from his said area of jurisdiction and be added to and thenceforward included in the area of jurisdiction of the under-sheriff or county registrar (as the case may require) of the City, and

(b) the added rural area shall, on such cesser or on the 1st day of April, 1931 (whichever is the later), be detached from his said area of jurisdiction and be added to and thenceforward included in the area of jurisdiction of the under-sheriff of the City.

(4) The following provisions shall have effect in the City and the County in relation to the preparation of jurors books, the preparation of panels of jurors, and the summoning of jurors, and in relation to the panels from which jurors are to be drawn for the trial of issues by a Court or a Judge sitting in the City or the County, that is to say:—

(a) until the 1st day of April, 1931, and thereafter until either the jurors book in force on that day in the Existing City or the jurors book in force on that day in the County (including the added urban districts and the added rural area) becomes exhausted, the law in force immediately before the passing of this Act shall continue in force and be observed as if this Act, and in particular the foregoing sub-section of this section and the provisions extending the boundaries of the City, had not been passed, and

(b) when and so soon as one of the said jurors books becomes exhausted after the 1st day of April, 1931, the other of the said jurors books shall be deemed to have become exhausted and new jurors books shall forth-with come into force in the City and the County, and

(c) notwithstanding anything contained in this sub-section, one of such new jurors books shall be prepared as a jurors book for the City as extended by this Act, and the other of such new jurors books shall be prepared as a jurors book for the County, exclusive of the added urban districts and the added rural area, and

(d) immediately upon such new jurors books coming into force the provisions of this Act shall have effect and thenceforward be observed, save that so long as there is an under-sheriff for the City such under-sheriff shall be the empanelling officer within the meaning of the Juries Act, 1927 (No. 23 of 1927), for the whole City as extended by this Act, and so long as there is an under-sheriff for the County such under-sheriff shall be the empanelling officer within the meaning aforesaid for so much only of the County as is not included in the City by this Act.