Courts of Justice Act, 1936

Superior Court Rules Committee.

67.—(1) There shall be and is hereby constituted a committee to be styled and in this Part of this Act referred to as the Superior Courts Rules Committee to fulfil the functions assigned to it by this Part of this Act.

(2) The Superior Courts Rules Committee shall consist of four ex-officio members and six nominated members.

(3) The ex-officio members of the said committee shall be—

(a) the Chief Justice, who shall be the chairman of the said committee;

(b) the President of the High Court, who shall be the vice-chairman of the said committee;

(c) the President of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland;

(d) the Master of the High Court.

(4) Two of the nominated members of the said committee shall be ordinary judges of the Supreme Court and shall (when the number of such ordinary judges exceeds two) be nominated by the Chief Justice, and two of the said nominated members shall be ordinary judges of the High Court nominated by the President of the High Court.

(5) Two of the nominated members of the said committee shall be practising barristers nominated by the Council of the Bar of Saorstát Eireann, of whom one shall be a member of the Senior Bar and the other shall be a member of the Junior Bar.

(6) Every nominated member of the said committee shall, unless he sooner dies, resigns, or ceases to be (as the case may be) an ordinary judge of the Supreme Court, an ordinary judge of the High Court, a practising barrister, or (in the case of the member of the Junior Bar) a member of the Junior Bar, hold office as such member for five years from the date of his nomination.

(7) A nominated member of the said committee whose membership thereof expires by effluxion of time shall be eligible for renomination.

(8) The Registrar of the Supreme Court shall be the secretary of the said committee.

(9) The quorum of the said committee shall be six members.

(10) The said committee may act notwithstanding one or more vacancies in its membership.