HC Deb 28 April 1902 vol 107 cc48-9
MR. power (Waterford, E.)

I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that Mr. Power, of Dungarvan, County Waterford, has been removed from the Commission of the Peace by the Lord Chancellor of Ireland; and whether he can state the date on which Mr. Power was sworn in as a Justice of the Peace.

MR. WYNDHAM

Mr. Power has been removed from the Commission of the Peace. Upon his election as Chairman of the Dungarvan Urban District Council, he became, ipso facto, a Justice of the Peace. He had not taken the magisterial oaths, but he was by law a magistrate, and could at any time have acted as such on taking the oaths.

MR. POWER

Had this gentleman been sworn in as a magistrate?

MR. WYNDHAM

I have said he had not.

DR. AMBROSE

Will pro-Boer magistrates be treated in the same way?