Irish Universities Act, 1908

Irish Universities Committee.

18.(1) There shall be a committee of the Privy Council in Ireland styled the Irish Universities Committee. The committee shall consist of such number of members of the Privy Council in Ireland, not being less than five, as the Lord Lieutenant may think fit to appoint, two at least being persons who are or have been judges of the supreme court.

(2) The powers and duties of the Irish Universities Committee may be exercised and discharged by any three or more members of the committee, so long as one of those members is a person who is or has been a judge of the supreme court, and, in the case of appeals under section seventeen of this Act, then so long as two of those members are persons who are or have been judges of the supreme court.

(3) The costs of all parties of and incident to the hearing of any petition or appeal under this Act which is heard by the Irish Universities Committee shall be in the discretion of the committee.

(4) The Lord Lieutenant in Council may make rules generally for regulating the procedure of the Irish Universities Committee, and may, by those rules, prescribe the time within which any appeal under this Act may be made, and the mode in which any costs allowed under this Act may be recovered.