County Officers and Courts (Ireland) Act, 1877

Power to make rules and orders.

79. [1] For the purpose of carrying this Act into effect, the Lord Chancellor, with the concurrence of the chairmen, or any five of them, to be selected at a meeting of the chairmen convened for the purpose, or in default of such selection to be nominated by the Lord Chancellor, or the major part of such five, may at any time make rules and orders for regulating the practice of the Civil Bill Courts and prescribing the forms of proceedings therein, and for regulating appeals and rehearings, and prescribing the forms of proceedings thereon, and for defining the duties of the Clerks of the Crown and Peace, Registrars, and other officers of the Civil Bill Courts, and as to the several matters and things herein-before mentioned, and as to any other matter or thing, whether similar or not to those herein-before mentioned, in respect of which it may be expedient to make rules for regulating the proceedings in and practice of the Civil Bill Courts, and for adapting the same to the constitution practice and procedure for the time being of the superior courts, and otherwise for carrying the provisions of this Act into execution, and may from time to time amend such rules orders and forms; and every such rule order and form certified under the hands of the Lord Chancellor, and any five of the chairmen, shall take effect from and after such date as shall be therein named. The Lord Chancellor, with the concurrence of the recorder of any court, may at any time and from time to time make and amend like rules orders and forms concerning such recorder's court. . . .

[1 Extended to the making if rules and orders prescribing and regulating the mode of service of Civil Bill processes in ejectment and for recovery of rent, 44 & 45 Vict. c. 49. s. 51.]