James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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I move amendment No. 53:

In page 16, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following:

“Continuity of administration of justice not to be affected 41.(1) The continuity of the administration of justice shall not be interrupted by-

(a) the designation of a centralised court office under section 36(1),

(b) the specification of business as specified business under section 36(2),

(c) the variation of the business that may or shall be transacted in a centralised court office under section 36(3)(a)(i), or

(d) the revocation of the designation of a centralised court office under section 36(3) (a)(ii).

(2) Where the transaction of business has been commenced in a court office and, prior to its conclusion, the business is specified as business under subsection (2)or (3)of section 36which shall be transacted in a centralised court office only, the transaction of the business concerned shall be continued in the centralised court office from the date specified in accordance with subsection (2)(b)or (3)(b)of section 36.

(3) Where the transaction of specified business has been commenced in a centralised court office and, prior to its conclusion, the designation of the centralised court office is revoked in accordance with section 36(3)(a)(ii)or the business of a centralised court office is varied by the removal of that business in accordance with section 36(3)(a)(i), the transaction of the business concerned shall be continued from the date specified in accordance with section 36(3)(b), in the court office in which it would have been transacted prior to its specification.”.