Poor Relief (Ireland) Act, 1838

If rules are quashed the same to be notified to unions to which such rules have been directed.

Proviso for existing contracts.

No person to be answerable until receipt of notice.

117. If upon the hearing of the application the court shall order a writ of certiorari to issue for bringing up any such order, and the same, being brought into court, shall be quashed as illegal, the commissioners shall forthwith notify the judgment of the court to all unions to which such order shall have been directed; and the same shall from the time of receiving such notice respectively be deemed and taken to be null and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever: Provided always, that such judgment shall not have the effect of annulling any contracts made in pursuance or upon the authority of any such order which at the receipt of such notice respectively shall have been executed by either of the contracting parties: Provided also, that no person shall be liable to be prosecuted, either by indictment or by civil action, for or in respect of any act done by him before the receipt of such notice, under the authority and in pursuance of such order.

[Ss. 118–123 rep. 37 & 38 Vict. c. 96. (S.L.R.)]