Courts of Justice Act, 1936
District Court Rules Committee. |
71.—(1) There shall be and is hereby constituted a committee to be styled and in this Part of this Act referred to as the District Court Rules Committee to fulfil the functions assigned to it by this Part of this Act. | |
(2) The District Court Rules Committee shall consist of two ex-officio members and seven nominated members. | ||
(3) The ex-officio members of the said Committee shall be— | ||
(a) that one of the justices of the District Court for the time being assigned to the district which comprises or includes the county borough of Dublin who is, for the purposes of section 74 of the Principal Act as amended by this Act, the senior of such justices, who shall be the chairman of the said committee; | ||
(b) the District Court clerk for the district which comprises or includes the county borough of Dublin, who shall be the secretary of the said committee. | ||
(4) Four of the nominated members of the said committee shall be justices of the District Court nominated by the Minister for Justice, and one other of the said nominated members shall be a practising barrister nominated by the Council of the Bar of Saorstát Eireann, and two others of the said nominated members shall be practising solicitors 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 justice of the District Court, 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 four members. | ||
(8) The said committee may act notwithstanding one or more vacancies in its membership. |