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The High Court on Circuit.
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34.—(1) Twice in every year the High Court shall sit in every county and county borough (other than the county of Dublin and the county borough of Dublin) in Saorstát Eireann to hear appeals from the Circuit Court and to transact such other business as shall lawfully be brought before it, and for that purpose one or more judges of the High Court shall, at the times appointed under this section, travel each High Court Circuit and hold a sitting of the High Court in every appeal town in such circuit.
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(2) The High Court when sitting in an appeal town in pursuance of this section shall be known and is in this Act referred to as the High Court on Circuit, and the sittings of the High Court in any such appeal town in pursuance of this section shall be known and are in this Act referred to as sittings of the High Court on Circuit.
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(3) The half-yearly sittings of the High Court on Circuit in the respective High Court Circuits shall, so far as is practicable, take place simultaneously in all the High Court Circuits, and shall be held at intervals of time as nearly equal as is convenient having regard to all the circumstances, but in the calculation of such intervals the months of August and September shall not be counted.
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(4) The Chief Justice and the President of the High Court shall jointly determine, in respect of each half-yearly sittings of the High Court on Circuit, the number of judges who shall travel and sit on each High Court Circuit for the purposes of such sittings and the day and hour at which such sittings shall commence in each appeal town on each such Circuit.
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(5) Save so far as may be rendered necessary by unforeseen events occurring during the half-yearly sittings of the High Court on Circuit, the High Court shall not at any one time sit for the purposes of such sittings in more than one appeal town on any one High Court Circuit.
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