Courts of Justice Act, 1936

Appointment of persons to act temporarily as additional judges of the Circuit Court.

14.—(1) Whenever it appears to the Executive Council that, owing to the temporary absence from duty for any cause of a judge of the Circuit Court, or an unusual and temporary increase in the business of the Circuit Court on any circuit, or any other cause, it is necessary, in order to prevent the work of the Circuit Court getting into arrear either generally or on any particular circuits or circuit, to increase temporarily the number of the judges of the Circuit Court, one or more persons who are practising barristers of at least ten years' standing at the date of appointment may be appointed to act as a judge or judges of the Circuit Court for such period as the Executive Council shall think proper in respect of each such person.

(2) Every person appointed under this section to act as a judge of the Circuit Court may, during the period for which he is so appointed, be assigned by the Minister for Justice from time to time as occasion requires to any circuit, and every person shall while so assigned to a circuit have, in relation to such circuit and concurrently with the judge permanently assigned to such circuit and any judge temporarily assigned under section 9 of the Courts of Justice Act, 1928 (No. 15 of 1928), to such circuit, all the privileges, powers and duties for the time being conferred or imposed by law on the judge permanently assigned to such circuit.

(3) Every person appointed under this section to act as a judge of the Circuit Court shall, during the period for which he is so appointed, be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas such remuneration as the Minister for Justice shall, with the sanction of the Minister for Finance, determine.