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20 1947

COURTS OF JUSTICE ACT, 1947

PART II.

Salaries of Judges and Justices of the District Court.

Increase of salaries of Judges of the Supreme Court and High Court.

5. —The respective annual salaries payable under section 13 (which relates to salaries of Judges of the Supreme Court and the High Court) of the Principal Act shall be increased,—

(a) in the case of each ordinary Judge of the High Court, by twenty per cent., and

(b) in every other case, by fifteen per cent.

Salary of President of the Circuit Court.

6. —(1) The President of the Circuit Court shall receive the same annual salary as an ordinary Judge of the High Court.

(2) The salary payable to the President of the Circuit Court shall be charged on and payable out of the Central Fund or the growing produce thereof.

(3) So much of section 41 of the Principal Act as fixes the salary of a Circuit Judge shall not apply in respect of the President of the Circuit Court.

Increase of salaries of Circuit Judges.

7. —The annual salaries payable under section 41 (which relates to salaries and pensions of Circuit Judges) of the Principal Act shall be increased by twenty-five per cent.

Increase of salaries of Justices of the District Court.

8. —The respective annual salaries payable under section 74 (which relates to salaries of Justices of the District Court) of the Principal Act or under section 8 (which relates to salaries of Dublin Metropolitan Justices) of the Act of 1946 shall be increased by thirty per cent.