Supreme Court of Judicature (Ireland) Act 1887
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1887 c. 6 |
| Year | 1887 |
Supreme Court of Judicature (Ireland) Act, 1887
(50 & 51 Vict.) CHAPTER 6.
An Act to amend the Supreme Court of Judicature Act (Ireland), 1877.
[23rd May 1887]
B E it enacted by the Queen'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, as follows:
1 Abolition of distinctions between certain judgeships.
1. From and after the passing of this Act, the office of Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and on the occasion of the first vacancy after the passing of this Act in the office of Chief Baron of the Exchequer, the said office of Chief Baron of the Exchequer, shall be reduced to an equality with the offices of the puisne judges of the High Court, by the abolition of the rank and title of Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in the first case, and Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in the latter case, and of all other distinctions between the office of the judge who may be appointed to fill the office of Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, vacant at the time of the passing of this Act, or the office of Chief Baron of the Exchequer, when the same may become vacant, and the offices of the puisne judges of the High Court, and between the salary, pension, and patronage attached to such office, and the salaries, pensions, and patronage of the puisne judges of the High Court.
2 Consolidation of the Common Law Division.
2. The Lord Lieutenant may at any time after the passing of this Act by Order in Council direct the fusion and amalgamation of the Common Pleas Division with the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court, and may by a like Order at any time after the occurrence of a vacancy in the office of Chief Baron of the Exchequer direct the fusion and amalgamation of the Exchequer Division with the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court; and may by each such order, or by a like order from time to time, give all such further directions as may be necessary or proper for the aforesaid purposes. No such Order in Council shall come into operation until the same shall have been laid before each House of Parliament for thirty days on which that House shall have sat, nor if within such period of thirty days an address is presented to Her Majesty by either House of Parliament, praying that the order may not come into...
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