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Divisional Courts for business of Queen's Bench and Exchequer Divisions.
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46. Subject to any rules of Court, and in the meantime until such Rules shall be made, all such business belonging to the Queen's Bench . . . and Exchequer Divisions respectively of the said High Court, as, according to the practice now existing in the Superior Courts of Common Law in Ireland, would have been proper to be transacted or disposed of by the Court sitting in Banco if this Act had not passed, may be transacted and disposed of by Divisional Courts, which shall, as far as may be found practicable and convenient, include one or more Judge or Judges attached to the particular Division of the said Court to which the cause or matter out of which such business arises has been assigned; and it shall be the duty of every Judge of such last-mentioned Division, and also of every other Judge of the High Court who shall not for the time being be occupied in the transaction of any business specially assigned to him, or in the business of any other Divisional Court, to take part, if required, in the sittings of such Divisional Courts as may from time to time be necessary for the transaction of the business assigned to the said Queen's Bench . . . and Exchequer Divisions respectively; and all such arrangements as may be necessary or proper for that purpose, or for constituting or holding any Divisional Courts of the said High Court of Justice for any other purpose authorised by this Act, and also for the proper transaction of that part of the business of the said Queen's Bench . . . and Exchequer Divisions respectively, which ought to be transacted by one or more Judges not sitting in a Divisional Court, shall be made from time to time under the direction and superintendence of the Judges of the said High Court of Justice, and in case of difference among them, in such manner as the majority of the said Judges, with the concurrence of either the Lord Chancellor or the Lord Chief Justice, shall determine.
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