No. 1/1928:

JURIES (PANELS FOR TRIAL OF CRIMINAL ISSUES) ORDER, 1928.

JURIES (PANELS FOR TRIAL OF CRIMINAL ISSUES) ORDER, 1928.

WHEREAS by sub-section (3) of section 33 of the Juries Act, 1927 (No. 23/1927), it is enacted that the Minister for Justice may, if and when he thinks fit, by order, made with the consent of the Judge of the Circuit Court assigned at the date of the order to the Circuit to which the order relates, direct that every criminal issue which is triable with a jury by a Judge of the Circuit Court sitting in a particular city or town (not being a county borough) shall be triable with a jury drawn from one or more specified jury districts in the county in which such city or town is situated, and so long as any such order is in force no such issue shall be tried by a Judge of the Circuit Court sitting in such city or town with any other jury:

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (3) of section 1 of the said Juries Act, 1927 , that the Minister for Justice may by order, from time to time, as and when he shall think fit, divide any county into two or more jury districts and that while any such order is in force each of the jury districts delimited thereby shall be a jury district for the purposes of the said Juries Act, 1927 :

AND WHEREAS the jury districts referred to in the Schedule to this Order are jury districts for the purposes of the said Juries Act, 1927 :

AND WHEREAS it is expedient that every criminal issue which is triable with a jury by a Judge of the Circuit Court sitting in a city or town named in the first column of the Schedule to this order should be triable with a jury drawn from the jury district specified opposite to such city or town in the second column of the said Schedule:

AND WHEREAS the several Judges of the Circuit Court assigned at the date of this order to the several Circuits to which this order relates have consented to the making of this order:

NOW I, JAMES FITZGERALD KENNEY, Minister for Justice, by virtue of the powers conferred upon me by sub-section (3) of section 33 of the Juries Act, 1927 (No. 23 of 1927) and of every and any other power enabling me in that behalf do hereby order as follows:—

1.—This order may be cited .for all purposes as the Juries (Panels for Trial of Criminal Issues) Order, 1928.

2.—The Interpretation Act, 1923 (No. 46 of 1923) shall apply to the interpretation of this order in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

3.—Every criminal issue which is triable with a jury by a Judge of the Circuit Court sitting in a city or town named in the first column of the schedule to this order shall be triable with a Jury drawn from the Jury District specified opposite to the said city or town in the second column of the said schedule.

4.—Nothing in this order shall affect the validity of the trial of any criminal issue in any city or town named in the schedule to this order by a Judge with a jury selected from any panel of jurors prepared according to law before the date of this order.

Given under my Seal of Office this 4th day of

January, 1928.

JAMES FITZGERALD-KENNEY,

Minister for Justice.

SCHEDULE.