Courts of Justice Act, 1936
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The Dublin Metropolitan Area and the Dublin district. |
64.—(1) In this section— | |
the word “enactment” means an enactment contained in a British Statute or in an Act of the Oireachtas. | ||
(2) The Minister for Justice may, if and when he thinks proper, by order declare that as on and from a specified day (in this section referred to as the appointed day) a specified district prescribed under section 68 of the Principal Act or under sub-section (3) of section 47 of the Court Officers Act, 1926 (No. 27 of 1926), shall be styled and known as the Dublin Metropolitan District. | ||
(3) If and when the Minister for Justice makes such order, as is authorised by the next preceding sub-section of this section. the following provisions shall have effect as on and from the appointed day, that is to say:— | ||
(a) the said Minister may, at any time or times, by order transfer the title “Dublin Metropolitan District” to any other district prescribed under the said section 68 or the said section 47 differing wholly or partially from the district to which such title was previously attached; | ||
(b) so much of any Act of the Oireachtas as requires, expressly or by implication, that one of the districts so prescribed as aforesaid shall consist of or include or be delimited by reference to the Dublin Metropolitan area shall cease to have effect; | ||
(c) every reference in section 72 or section 74 of the Principal Act to the Police District of Dublin Metropolis (now styled the Dublin Metropolitan Area) shall be construed as a reference to the Dublin Metropolitan District, and the said sections shall have effect accordingly; | ||
(d) every enactment which shall, on the day before the appointed day, be in force in and apply to the Dublin Metropolitan Area and in and to no other part of Saorstát Eireann shall, on and after the appointed day, cease to apply to the Dublin Metropolitan Area and in lieu thereof shall be in force in and apply to the Dublin Metropolitan District, and every reference in any such enactment to the Police District of Dublin Metropolis or to the Dublin Metropolitan Area shall be construed as a reference to the Dublin Metropolitan District; | ||
(e) every enactment which shall, on the day before the appointed day, be in force in and apply to the whole of Saorstát Eireann except the Dublin Metropolitan Area shall, on and after the appointed day, be in force in and apply to the whole of Saorstát Eireann except the Dublin Metropolitan District, and every reference in any such enactment to the Police District of Dublin Metropolis or to the Dublin Metropolitan Area shall be construed as a reference to the Dublin Metropolitan District; | ||
(f) nothing in either of the two next preceding paragraphs of this sub-section shall operate to keep in force any enactment or any provision in any enactment after the time at which such enactment or provision would have ceased to be in force if this section had not been enacted. |