Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854

Commissioners to provide suitable Court House, and proper Officer to act as Clerk

XXX. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners and they are hereby required to appoint a proper Officer to act as Clerk, and to provide, if there shall be no public Court House within such Town, a suitable Building to be a public Court for the hearing and determining of Offences under this Act; and it shall be lawful for the said Commissioner or any other Justice of the Peace of the City or Town, or of the County in which such City or Town or any Part thereof is situate, to sit at and hold such Court on every Fair and Market Day of such City or Town, and on every other Day on which he or they may think fit, for the hearing and determining of Offences under this Act; and for the Purposes of this Act such Commissioner or other Justice or Justices presiding at such Court shall have the same Powers as Justices presiding at Petty Sessions.

And with respect to the Officers to be appointed by the Commissioners, be it enacted as follows: