Dáil Eireann Courts (Winding-Up) Act, 1923

Appointment of Judicial Commissioners and Assistant Commissioners for the purpose of this Act.

2.—(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor-General of the Irish Free State, on the advice of the Executive Council of Saorstát Eireann, to appoint a fit and proper person to be Chief Judicial Commissioner and such and so many fit and proper persons as he shall, on the advice aforesaid think proper, to be respectively puisne Judicial Commissioners and Assistant Commissioners for the purposes of this Act.

(2) Every person appointed to be a Judicial Commissioner under this section shall have been a Judge of the Dáil Supreme Court or shall be a practising barrister of not less than ten years' standing, and every person appointed to be an Assistant Commissioner under this section shall have been a Circuit Judge of a Dáil Court or shall be a practising barrister of not less than six years' standing, or a District Justice.

(3) Every person appointed to be a Judicial Commissioner or an Assistant Commissioner under this section may be dismissed or removed at the pleasure of the Governor-General of the Irish Free State on the advice of the Executive Council.

(4) The Judicial Commissioners and Assistant Commissioners appointed under this section shall be paid, out of moneys to be provided by the Oireachtas, such salaries and allowances as shall be fixed by the Minister for Home Affairs with the consent of the Minister for Finance.