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PUBLIC OFFICERS PROTECTION (IRELAND) ACT 1803 - SECT 6

No action shall be brought against constables, &c. for any thing done under a warrant of a justice, &c., unless demand for inspection, &c. of the warrant shall have been refused for six days. If demand be complied with, the constable, &c. shall have a verdict notwithstanding any defect of jurisdiction in the justice, &c.

6. And ... no action shall be brought against any constable or other officer
in Ireland, or against any person or persons acting by his order and in his
aid, for anything done in obedience to any warrant under the hand or hand and
seal of any justice of the peace or governor or deputy governor of any county
or place in Ireland, until demand hath been made or left at the usual place of
his abode by the party or parties intending to bring such action, or by his,
her, or their attorney or agent, in writing signed by the party demanding the
same, of the perusal and copy of such warrant, and the same hath been refused
or neglected for the space of six days after such demand; and in case, after
such demand and compliance therewith by showing the said warrant to and
permitting a copy to be taken thereof by the party demanding the same, any
action shall be brought against such constable or other officer or against
such person or persons acting in his aid for any such cause as aforesaid,
without making the justice or justices or governors or deputy governors
respectively who signed or sealed the said warrant, defendant or defendants
therein, on producing or proving such warrant at the trial of such action the
jury shall give their verdict for the defendant or defendants, notwithstanding
any defect of jurisdiction in such justice or justices or governors or deputy
governors respectively; and if such action be brought jointly against such
justice or justices or governors or deputy governors respectively, and also
against such constable or other officer or person acting in his or their aid
as aforesaid, then on proof of such warrant the jury shall find for such
constable or other officer, and for such person or persons so acting as
aforesaid, notwithstanding such defect of jurisdiction as aforesaid; ....

S.7 rep. by SLR 1894



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