Summons and Process Servers' Fees (Ireland) Act, 1919

SUMMONS AND PROCESS SERVERS' FEES (IRELAND) ACT 1919

CHAPTER 4.

An Act to prescribe the fees that may be charged for service of justices summonses and county court processes in Ireland. [28th March 1919.]

Be it enacted by the King’s most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Feel for service of summarises and processes 41 & 42 Vict. c. 69.

14 & 15 Vict. c. 57.

1.(1) The Lord Chancellor may make orders prescribing—

(a) the maximum sums that may be fixed by justices under section ten of the Petty Sessions Clerks and Fines (Ireland) Act, 1878, as fees for the service of summonses under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts; and

(b) the fees that may be charged under section eighteen of the Civil Bill Courts (Ireland) Act, 1851, for the service of county court processes.

(2) The maximum sums prescribed by any such order in relation to the fees for the service of summonses under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts shall be substituted for the sums specified in the schedule to the Petty Sessions Clerks and Fines (Ireland) Act, 1878, and in section ten of that Act a reference to the order shall be substituted for the reference to the said schedule.

(3) The fees prescribed by any such order for the service of county court processes shall be substituted for the fees specified in section eighteen of the Civil Bill Courts (Ireland) Act, 1851.

(4) Every such order shall be published in the Dublin Gazette, and the production of a copy of such gazette purporting to be printed under the authority of His Majesty’s Stationery Office and containing the publication of any such order shall be conclusive evidence of the making of such order.

Short title and exdtent.

2. This Act may be cited as the Summons and Process Servers’ Fees (Ireland) Act, 1919, and shall apply to Ireland only.