Courts of Justice Act, 1936

Local Registration of Title Rules Committee.

73.—(1) There shall be and is hereby constituted a committee to be styled and in this Part of this Act referred to as the Local Registration of Title Rules Committee to fulfil the functions assigned to it by this Part of this Act.

(2) The Local Registration of Title Rules Committee shall consist of two ex-officio members and two nominated members.

(3) The ex-officio members of the said committee shall be—

(a) the Judge of the High Court for the time being assigned to discharge the office of Judicial Commissioner of the Irish Land Commission, who shall be the chairman of the said committee;

(b) the Registrar of Titles, who shall be the secretary of the said committee.

(4) One of the nominated members of the said committee shall be a practising barrister nominated by the Council of the Bar of Saorstát Eireann, and the other of the said nominated members shall be a practising solicitor nominated by the Council of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

(5) Every nominated member of the said committee shall, unless he sooner dies, resigns, or ceases to be (as the case may be) a practising barrister or a practising solicitor, hold office as such member for five years from the date of his nomination.

(6) A nominated member of the said committee whose membership thereof expires by effluxion of time shall be eligible for renomination.

(7) The quorum of the said committee shall be three members.

(8) The said committee may act notwithstanding one vacancy in its membership.