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Part VIIU.K. Improvements

XVII.- Ireland.U.K.

65 Modifications respecting Ireland. U.K.

(1)In the application of this Act to Ireland the foregoing provisions shall be modified as in this section provided.

(2)The Court shall be Her Majesty’s High Court of Justice in Ireland.

(3)All matters within the jurisdiction of that Court shall, subject to the Acts regulating that Court, be assigned to the Chancery division of that Court ; but General Rules under this Act for Ireland may direct that those matters or any of them be assigned to the Land Judges of that Division.

(4)Any deed inrolled under this Act shall be inrolled in the Record and Writ Office of that Division.

(5)General Rules for purposes of this Act for Ireland shall be deemed Rules of Court within the Supreme Court of Judicature Act (Ireland), 1877 M1, and may be made accordingly, at any time after the passing of this Act, to take effect on or after the commencement of this Act.

(6)The several Civil Bills Courts in Ireland shall, in addition to the jurisdiction possessed by them independently of this Act, have and exercise the power and authority exercisable by the Court under this Act, in all proceedings where the property, the subject of the proceedings, does not exceed in capital value five hundred pounds, or in annual value thirty pounds.

(7)The provisions of Part II of the County Officers and Courts (Ireland) Act, 1877 M2, relative to the equitable jurisdiction of the Civil Bills Courts, shall apply to the juridiction exercisable by those Courts under this Act.

(8)Rules and Orders for purposes of this Act, as far as it relates to the Civil Bill Courts, may be made at any time after the passing of this Act, to take effect on or after the commencement of this Act, in manner prescribed by section seventy-nine of the County Officers and Courts (Ireland) Act, 1877.

(9)The Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland shall be substituted for the Land Commissioners.

(10)the term for which a lease other than a building or mining lease may be granted shall not be exceeding thirty-five years.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1The text of s.65 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991

Marginal Citations

M140 & 41 Vict. c.57

M240 & 41 Vict. c.56