HL Deb 07 August 1896 vol 44 cc33-4

(1.) The Lord Chancellor, the Land Judge of the Chancery Division of the High Court, and the Judicial Commissioner of the Land Commission, or any two of them (of whom the Lord Chancellor shall be one) may make rules for the following purposes, namely:— (a.) To enable the Land Judge to act as an additional Judicial Commissioner of the Land Commission—

  1. (i) in any matter arising under the Land Purchase Acts as amended by this Act; or
  2. (ii) in any appeal or rehearing under the Land Law Acts as amended by this Act;
(b.) To enable the Judicial Commissioner of the Land Commission to exercise any jurisdiction, powers, and duties, so far as existing at the commencement of this Act,
  1. (i.) of the High Court or any Judge thereof, either as successors of the Landed Estates Court and the Judges thereof, or under the Record of Title (Ireland) Act, 1895, or the Local Registration of Title (Ireland) Act, 1891; and
  2. (ii) of the Land Judge and of the Receiver Judge under any enactment conferring any jurisdiction upon either of such Judges as such;
 (c.) To enable the High Court to distribute the proceeds of any sale under the Land Purchase Acts, and to enable the Land Commission to carry into effect any sale under those Acts ordered by the High Court. (2.) For carrying into effect any such rules, and exercising the jurisdiction, powers, and duties arising thereunder, the Land Judge shall be deemed to be an additional Judicial Commissioner of the Land Commission, and the Judicial Commissioner shall be deemed to be an additional Land Judge. (3.) The Land Judge as respects officers of the Supreme Court who are attached to such Judge, or otherwise employed in or about the execution of any such jurisdiction, powers and duties as may under this section be exercised by the Judicial Commissioner, and the Judicial Commissioner, so far as respects the officers of the Land Commission, may direct those officers to perform such duties as he thinks fit under the Land Commission or under the Land Judge, as the case may be, and those officers shall perform those duties. (4.) The Land Judge and the Judicial Land Commissioner may also make regulations for carrying into effect any rules made in pursuance of this section, and for the mutual relations between the Land Judge and the officers of the Supreme Court on the one side, and the Land Commission and their officers on the other, and in particular for the payment into the High Court of money to be distributed among the parties entitled thereto, and for the Land Commission carrying into effect any sales under the Land Purchase Acts ordered by the High Court. (5.) Sub-sections two and three of Section fifty of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881, shall apply to rules made under this section. (6.) The first rules under this section shall be made as soon as practicable after the commencement of this Act. (7.) Such rules shall provide that the Court of the Land Commission in Dublin shall, when hearing appeals or rehearing cases, or hearing such other matters as may be prescribed, be hold at the Four Courts, Dublin.

Clause 23,—

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