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Indemnity of persons acting under authority of Dáil Courts.
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27.—(1) No action or other legal proceeding, whether civil or criminal, shall be brought in any court of law or equity against—
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(a) any judge or officer of any Dáil Court for or on account of or in respect of any act, matter or thing duly done by him in the course of his duty as such judge or officer; or
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(b) any person, whether he was or was not an officer of a Dáil Court, for or on account of or in respect of any act, matter or thing done or omitted to be done by him under the authority or in pursuance of any decree constituting or regulating the Dáil Courts or under the authority or in pursuance of any decree of a Dáil Court or any order or direction of a judge of any such court; or
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(c) any officer of any court other than a Dáil Court for or on account of or in respect of his having refrained before the passing of this Act from doing any act, matter or thing which it was his duty as such officer to do and which he refrained from doing bona fide on the ground that the doing of such act, matter or thing was contrary to or in conflict with or prejudicial to the enforcement of a decree of a Dáil Court.
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(2) If any such action or other legal proceeding as is mentioned in the foregoing sub-section was instituted before the passing of this Act and is now pending, the same shall be discharged and made void, subject to such order as to costs as the court in which such action of proceeding is pending, or a Judge thereof, shall think fit to make.
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