Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1901-1910; Land tenure -- Ireland
(4) All legal proceedings in Ireland, which are instituted at the instance
of or against the Treasury or Commissioners of Customs, or any of their
officers, or relate to the election of members to serve in Parliament, or
touch any matter within the powers of the Irish Legislature, or touch any
matter affected by a law which the Irish Legislature have not power to
repeal or alter, shall, if so required by any party to such proceedings,
be heard and determined before the Exchequer judges or (except where the
case requires to be determined by two judges) before one of them, and in
any such legal proceeding an appeal shall, if any party so requires, lie
from any Court of first instance in Ireland to the Exchequer judges, and
the decision of the Exchequer judges shall be subject to appeal to Her
Majesty the Queen in Council and not to any other tribunal.
(5) If it is made to appear to an Exchequer judge that any decree or
judgment in any such proceeding as aforesaid has not been duly enforced by
the sheriff or other officer whose duty it is to enforce the same, such
judge shall appoint some officer whose duty it shall be to enforce the
judgment or decree; and for that purpose such officer and all persons
employed by him shall be entitled to the same privileges, immunities, and
powers as are by law conferred on a sheriff and his officers.
(6) The Exchequer judges, when not engaged in hearing and determining such
legal proceedings as above in this section mentioned, shall perform such
of the duties ordinarily performed by other judges of the Supreme Court in
Ireland as may be assigned by Her Majesty the Queen in Council.
(7) All sums recovered by the Treasury or the Commissioners of Customs or
any of their officers, or recovered under any Act relating to duties of
Customs, shall, notwithstanding anything in any other Act, be paid to such
public account as the Treasury or the Commissioners direct.
_Post Office, Postal Telegraphs, and Savings Banks._
[Sidenote: Transfer of post office and postal telegraphs.]
=20.=--(1) As from the _appointed day_ the postal and telegraph service in
Ireland shall be transferred to the Irish Government, and may be regulated
by Irish Act, except as in this Act mentioned and except as regards
matters relating--
(_a_) To such conditions of the transmission or delivery of postal
packets and telegrams as are incidental to the duties on postage; or
(_b_) To foreign mails or submarine telegraphs or through lines in
connection therewith; or
(_c_) To any other postal or telegraph business in connection with
places out of the United Kingdom.
(2) The administration of or incidental to the said excepted matters
shall, save as may be otherwise arranged with the Irish Post Office,
remain with the Postmaster-General.
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