Courts of Justice Act, 1926

JurisdictionIreland
CitationIR No. 1/1926
Year1926


Number 1 of 1926.


COURTS OF JUSTICE ACT, 1926.


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1.

The Principal Act.

2.

Repeal of references to High Court Circuit.

3.

Assignment of High Court Judge to Central Criminal Court.

4.

Jurisdiction of Central Criminal Court.

5.

Times and sittings of Central Criminal Court.

6.

Sending forward of accused persons for trial.

7.

Trial of persons now awaiting trial.

8.

Cases which may be disposed of by the Central Criminal Court.

9.

Short title, construction and citation.


Act Referred to

Courts of Justice Act, 1924

No. 10 of 1924


Number 1 of 1926.


COURTS OF JUSTICE ACT, 1926.


AN ACT TO MAKE FURTHER PROVISION FOR THE CONSTITUTION OF THE CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT AND TO EXTEND THE JURISDICTION THEREOF AND TO TRANSFER TO THAT COURT THE JURISDICTION OF THE COURT OF THE HIGH COURT CIRCUIT AND TO MAKE BETTER PROVISION FOR THE TRIAL OF ACCUSED PERSONS INCLUDING ACCUSED PERSONS NOW AWAITING TRIAL. [15th January, 1926.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS OF SAORSTÁT EIREANN AS FOLLOWS:—

The Principal Act.

1.—In this Act the expression “the Principal Act” means the Courts of Justice Act, 1924 (No. 10 of 1924).

Repeal of references to High Court Circuit.

2.—The definitions contained in section 3 of the Principal Act of the Commissioners of the High Court Circuit and the Court of the High Court Circuit and also all references contained in the Principal Act to those Commissioners or that Court are hereby repealed.

Assignment of High Court Judge to Central Criminal Court.

3.—(1) The power of assigning to a judge of the High Court the duty of acting as the Central Criminal Court for the time being shall be vested in the President of the High Court alone.

(2) It shall be lawful for the President of the High Court in the exercise of the said power to assign the said duty to himself.

Jurisdiction of Central Criminal Court.

4.—The Central Criminal Court shall have and may exercise every jurisdiction in criminal matters for the time being vested in the High Court, and every person lawfully brought before the Central Criminal Court for trial in exercise of any such jurisdiction may be indicted before and tried and sentenced by that Court wherever it may be sitting in like manner in all respects as if the crime with which such person is charged had been committed in the county or county borough in which the said Court is sitting.

Times and sittings of Central Criminal Court.

5.—(1) Clause (iv.) of section 36 of the Principal Act is hereby repealed and in lieu thereof it is hereby enacted that the sittings of the Central Criminal Court shall be held (with and subject to...

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