19/07/1924: The Under Sheriffs and Bailiffs Fees Order, 1924.

THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.

THE UNDER SHERIFFS AND BAILIFFS FEES ORDER, 1924.

[Extracts from Iris Oifigiúil, July 25, 1924.]

ORDER OF MINISTER FOR JUSTICE UNDER SECTION FIFTEEN OF ENFORCEMENT OF LAW (OCCASIONAL POWERS) ACT, 1924 , FIXING AND REVISING SCALE OF FEES CHARGEABLE BY AND PAYABLE TO UNDER-SHERIFFS, BAILIFFS, AND OTHER PERSONS FOR THEIR SERVICES IN THE EXECUTION OF WRITS, DECREES AND ORDERS.

WHEREAS OF MINISTER FOR JUSTICE UNDER SECTION FIFTEEN OF ENFORCEMENT OF LAW (OCCASIONAL POWERS) ACT, 1924 , FIXING AND REVISING SCALE OF FEES CHARGEABLE BY AND PAYABLE TO UNDER SHERIFFS, BAILIFFS, AND OTHER PERSONS FOR THEIR SERVICES IN THE EXECUTION OF WRITS, DECREES AND ORDERS.

WHEREAS by the Enforcement of Law (Occasional Powers) Act, 1924 , section fifteen, it is amongst other things enacted that the Minister for Justice may by Order appoint and from time to time revise the scale of the fees to be charged by and paid to Under-Sheriffs, Bailiffs, and other persons for their services in or about the execution of writs of fieri facias and writs of habere, and in or about the execution of decrees (whether for debt, possession of land or otherwise) of Civil Bill Courts, and that the fees specified in any such scale of fees shall be in lieu of and in substitution for the fees now by law chargeable by or payable to Under-Sheriffs, Bailiffs and other persons for the like service.

AND WHEREAS at the passing of the said Act certain poundages, fees and charges were chargeable by and payable to such persons aforesaid under or by virtue of certain Statutes, Rules and Orders previously made and promulgated (hereinafter referred to as " the existing scale of fees and charges ").

NOW I, CAOIMHGHIN O h-UIGIN, Minister for Justice, in pursuance of the powers vested in me under section fifteen of the Enforcement of Law (Occasional Powers) Act, 1924 , and of all other powers me thereunto enabling, do order, appoint and declare :—

(1) That the scale of fees set forth in the Schedule hereto shall take effect from the date hereof and be in force until further order, in lieu of and in substitution for any fees heretofore chargeable under the existing scale of fees and charges in respect of any matter for which a fee is provided in the said Schedule.

(2) That save in respect of matters mentioned in the Schedule hereto all poundages, fees and charges payable under or by virtue of the existing scale of fees and charges shall be the poundages, fees and charges chargeable and payable in respect of the matters specified in such existing scale of fees and charges.

SCHEDULE.

For each man properly left in possession of any goods or chattels seized under any writ, decree, order, or other process :—

Given under my Hand this nineteenth day of July, 1924.

C. Ó h-UIGHÍN,

Minister for Justice. [1093]