It must be stressed that the term "statutory provision", defined in section 1 as meaning any Act of the Oireachtas or any order, regulation, rule, licence, by-law or any other like document made, issued or otherwise created under any statute or by law, also includes every statute establishing the courts and every statutory instrument in which court rules are provided. All the legislation on which the courts are based, subject to the Constitution, and every rule of court which is a statutory instrument is encompassed by this Act. Members will see, as we examine the provisions of the Bill, that the courts are obliged to regard their own establishing legislation and their own rules of procedure, as laid down in statutory instruments, in a manner consistent with the convention to the greatest extent possible.