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All Matters pending before the Incumbered Estates Court to be transferred to the new Court.
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XXVI. When and so soon as the Court constituted by this Act shall come into operation, all the Matters theretofore pending before the Commissioners for the Sale of Incumbered Estates in Ireland shall thereupon stand transferred to the “Landed Estates Court, Ireland” and be dealt with in that Court in respect of all Orders and Conveyances, and otherwise in the further Prosecution of the same, as if the said Matters had been commenced in the said last-mentioned Court; and all Acts and Orders of the said Commissioners, whether their Powers shall or shall not have expired, shall continue in force, save as herein mentioned; and the Court shall for the Purposes of such Matters have all the Jurisdiction, Power, and Authority possessed by the said Commissioners, as well as those conferred upon the Court by this Act; and all the Rules of Procedure which shall be in force under this Act shall be applied in the future Prosecution thereof, so far as such Rules are capable of being so applied, and if such Rules shall not be found applicable thereto, then such Matters shall be prosecuted according to the Course of Procedure theretofore used before the said Commissioners; and every Appeal previously made to the full Court of the said Commissioners which shall be then pending shall not be heard by them, but shall be prosecuted directly before the Court of Appeal in Chancery; provided that nothing herein contained shall prevent the said Commissioners from giving Judgment in any Case which shall have been heard before them, or shall prevent any of the Parties to such Matter from having an Appeal therefrom to the Court of Appeal in Chancery; and provided that every Proceeding to make absolute a Conditional Order which shall have by made by the Court of the Commissioners for the Sale of Incumbered Estates in Ireland, or by any of them, shall be prosecuted before a Judge of the said Landed Estates Court as if such Order had been pronounced by him; provided also, that nothing herein contained shall operate to prevent, the Court from rescinding, vacating, or varying any Acts or Orders of the said Commissioners, as if same, had been made or done by the Court itself.
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