District Justices (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1923

Appointment of District Justices.

1.—(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor-General of the Irish Free State on the advice of the Executive Council from time to time to appoint fit and proper persons being Barristers-at-Law in Saorstát Eireann of at least two years' standing or Solicitors of the Supreme Court i Saorstát Eireann to be Magistrates with the title of “District Justices” and to perform the duties and have the powers prescribed by this Act.

(2) Every person appointed to be a District Justice may be dismissed or removed at the pleasure of the Governor-General of the Irish Free State on the advice of the Executive Council.

(3) Every person so appointed to be a District Justice shall while he holds that office be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas a salary and allowances in accordance with a scale to be prescribed by the Minister with the concurrence of the Minister for Finance.

(4) No person shall while holding the office of District Justice be capable of holding any other office or position of emolument or of being elected to or of being a member of either House of the Oireachtas.

(5) Every person so appointed to be a District Justice shall before entering on his office subscribe and make a solemn declaration in the form contained in the First Schedule to this Act.