Courthouses (Provision and Maintenance) Act, 1935

The City and County of Dublin.

7.—(1) The obligations of the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of Dublin to provide and maintain courthouse accommodation under this Act shall be limited to providing and maintaining in accordance with this Act at Green Street in the City of Dublin such courthouse accommodation as the Minister shall direct for or in relation to the sittings in Dublin of the Central Criminal Court and the Circuit Court.

(2) The courthouse accommodation to be provided and maintained by the Council of the County of Dublin shall include the provision and maintenance at Kilmainham in the City of Dublin of such courthouse accommodation as the Minister shall direct for or in relation to sittings of the Circuit Court and of the District Court, and for the purposes of this Act such courthouse accommodation shall be deemed to be situate in the County of Dublin.

(3) For the purposes of this Act the borough of Dun Laoghaire shall not be reckoned as part of the County of Dublin, and this Act shall apply to and have effect in the said borough as if that borough were a county and the Corporation of Dun Laoghaire were the council of such county, but with and subject to the modification that, so long as the courthouse in use in the said borough at the passing of this Act continues to be used with the consent of the Minister as a courthouse, all rent payable in respect of such courthouse shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas.

(4) Nothing in this section shall prejudice or affect the liability of the Council of the County of Dublin or of the Corporation of Dun Laoghaire to pay, under any other section of this Act, a proportion of the expenses of the provision and maintenance of courthouse accommodation by any other council.