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Judges to frame General Orders, to be approved by Lord Chancellor, &c.
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XXX. The said Judges, on or before the First Day of November next, shall prepare a Code of General Rules, such as they may think best adapted for regulating the Course of Procedure under this Act, and in relation to the making Investments, and generally for securing the due Execution of the Powers vested in the said Court, and giving Effect to the Provisions and Objects of this Act; but no Fees or Sums shall, under any such General Rule or otherwise, be payable to any Officer or Person appointed under this Act, upon or in respect of any Proceedings under this Act, save in respect of the Copy or Extract of or from any Order, Document, or Proceeding actually required and taken by any Party, such Sum, not exceeding Three Halfpence for every Seventy-two Words, as shall be paid for the making of such Copy or Extract, and the said Court shall authorize to be charged to such Party for the same: Provided always, that every such Code of General Rules shall be laid before the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and the Lord Chancellor thereupon, with the Assistance of the Lord Justice of Appeal, shall consider the Expediency of such Rules and every of them; and it shall be lawful for the Lord Chancellor, with the Concurrence of the Lord Justice of Appeal, by Order signed by him, to confirm or disallow all or any of such Rules, or to alter or amend, and confirm with such Alterations or Amendment, any of such Rules, or to remit any of such Rules to the said Judges for further Consideration, or to frame any additional Rule or Rules; and every such General Rule or Rules (when the same shall have been so confirmed by Order of the Lord Chancellor) shall be enrolled in the High Court of Chancery in Ireland, and when so enrolled shall be binding on the said Court in the Exercise of its Powers, and shall be of the same Force and Effect as if the same had been enacted by Authority of Parliament: Provided also, that any Rules so confirmed and enrolled as aforesaid may from Time to Time be added to, rescinded, amended, or altered, as Occasion may require, by other Rules made by the Judges for the Time being, and confirmed and enrolled in like Manner; and provided also, that it shall be lawful for any of the Judges of the Court singly to lay any Rule or Rules before the Lord Chancellor which such Judge may think expedient, whereupon the Lord Chancellor may proceed with respect to such Rule or Rules as if the same had been prepared and laid before him by both the Judges of the said Court.
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