LAND LAW (IRELAND) ACT 1896

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LAND LAW (IRELAND) ACT 1896 - SECT 23



23.(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

(i)in any matter arising under the Land Purchase Acts as amended by this Act;
or

(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,

(i)of the High Court or any judge thereof, either as successors of the Landed
Estates Court and the judges thereof, or under ... the
Local Registration of Title (Ireland) Act, 1891; and

(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 (2) and (3) of section fifty of the
Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881, shall apply to rules made under this section.

Subs.(6) rep. by SLR 1908

(7) Such rules shall provide that the Court of the Land Commission in
[Belfast] shall, when hearing appeals or rehearing cases, or hearing such
other matters as may be prescribed, be held at the [Royal Courts of Justice
(Ulster)].

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LAND LAW (IRELAND) ACT 1896 - SECT 23