Clerk of Assize (Ireland) Act 1821
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1821 c. 54 |
(1 & 2 Geo. 4) C A P. LIV.
[15th June 1821]
'WHEREAS it appears, from the Seventh Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Duties, Salaries and Emoluments of the Officers, Clerks, and Ministers of Justice in all Temporal and Ecclesiastical Courts inIreland , that it is expedient to regulate the Office of Clerks of Assize or Nisi Prius, otherwise called Judge's Registrar, in Ireland , as hereinafter is provided:' Be it therefore enacted by The King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the Commencementof this Act it shall not be lawful for any Clerk of Assize or Nisi Prius, or Judge's Registrar, inIreland , or any Person acting as such, in any case or under any Pretence whatsoever, to ask, demand, receive or accept any Fee, Reward or pecuniary or other Consideration or Recompence whatsoever, for or in respect of the Performance of any of the Duties of such Office, or for or in respect of any Payment as for the Judges on the Occasion of Trials at Nisi Prius, or on the hearing of Civil Bill Appeals, or for or in respect of any Matter incident to or arising out of any such Trial, other than such Allowance as is hereinafter authorized by this Act; and if any such Officer shall offend herein, he shall, for every such Offence, forfeit and pay the Sum of Five hundred Pounds, to be recovered by Action of Debt, by any Person who shall sue for the same in any of the Superior Courts in Dublin , one Moiety to the Use of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and the other Moiety to the Use of the Informer.
II In lieu of all Fees and Salaries at present payable, certain Sums made payable at the Exchequer to Clerks of Assize or Nisi Prius.
II. And be it further enacted, That in lieu of the Fees so abolished, and of all Salaries now payable to any such Clerk of Assize or Nisi Prius, or Judge's Registrar, inIreland , there shall be paid, at the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer in Dublin , out of the Consolidated Fund of Great Britain and Ireland , after the last Day of each and every Easter Term and Michaelmas Term, to every Person having held the Office of Clerk of Assize or Nisi Prius to any Judge of Assize, at the then next preceding Circuit, whether such Judge of Assize shall be one of the Judges of His Majesty's Superior Courts in Dublin or not, the Sum of Two hundred Pounds Sterling; the First of such Payments to be made after the last Day of Easter Term, which will be in the Year One thousand eight hundred and twenty two; and that after the last Day of each and every Term which shall succeed the Michaelmas Term next ensuing the Commencement of this Act, there shall be paid at the Receipt of the said Exchequer, to every Person having held the Office of Clerk of Nisi Prius to any of the Chief Judges of His Majesty's Courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas or Exchequer in Ireland...
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