Land Law (Commission) Act, 1923

Appointment of Commissioners.

4.—(1) The Commissioners (other than the Judicial Commissioner) of the Irish Land Commission shall be appointed by the Executive Council of Saorstát Eireann.

(2) Every jurisdiction, power and duty which immediately before the transfer date was by law vested in or imposed on the Estates Commissioners of the Irish Land Commission and was exercisable or to be performed in Saorstát Eireann shall upon the appointment of Commissioners under this section become and be vested in or imposed on the Commissioners so appointed, and every mention of or reference to the Estates Commissioners of the Irish Land Commission or any one or more of such Estates Commissioners contained in any Act, rule, regulation or order shall be construed and take effect as a mention of or reference to Commissioners appointed under this section or to a like number of such Commissioners.

(3) Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to authorise the appointment of Estates Commissioners of the Irish Land Commission.

(4) So much of Sub-section (3) of Section 28 of the Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1891 , as provides that each Commissioner of the Irish Land Commission shall hold his office by the same tenure as if he was a County Court Judge in Ireland shall not apply to Commissioners appointed under this section.