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Sittings in Dublin and on circuits.
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41. Subject to any arrangements which may be from time to time made by agreement between the Judges of the said High Court, the sittings for trials by jury in Dublin, and the sittings of Judges of the said High Court under Commissions of Assize, Oyer and Terminer, and Gaol Delivery, shall be held by or before Judges of the Queen's Bench . . . or Exchequer Division of the said High Court: Provided, that it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, if she shall think fit, to include in any such commission any Ordinary Judge of the Court of Appeal, or any Judge of the Chancery Division appointed after the first of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, or any of Her Majesty's serjeants-at-law, or counsel learned in the law, who, for the purposes of such commission, shall have all the power, authority, and jurisdiction of a Judge of the said High Court. And any person not a Judge of the High Court who shall be sent as a commissary shall be paid the same amount and in the same manner as such person would have been paid if before the passing of this Act he had been sent as a commissary; and if he shall be sent in place of a Judge, who, under the provisions of this Act, was bound to go circuit without payment in respect thereof in addition to his salary, then one hundred and fifty pounds shall be deducted from the salary of such Judge: Provided also, that, any law or custom to the contrary, it shall not be necessary in any commission for the trial of crimes and offences in the county of the city and county of Dublin to nominate more than one Judge to preside, nor for more than one Judge to preside under any commission existing at the commencement of this Act.
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