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Civil Bill Courts in Ireland, and for prescribing the forms of proceedings, and for the several other purposes in the said Act mentioned, and otherwise for carrying the said Act into execution, and may from time to time amend such rules, orders, and forms; and that every such rule, order, and form, certified under the hands of the Lord Chancellor and any five of such Judges and Chairmen, shall take effect from and after such day as shall be therein named:

And whereas by the County Court Jurisdiction in Lunacy (Ireland) Act, 1880, 43 & 44 Vict. c. 39. s. 2, it is enacted that the power of making rules and orders contained in the said County Officers and Courts (Ireland) Act, 1877, shall include the power of making rules and orders for carrying the purposes of the Act now in recital into effect, and prescribing the forms of proceedings and duties of officers under it: And whereas by the Inferior Courts Judgments Extension Act, 1882, 45 & 46 Vict. c. 31. s. 11, it is declared that rules for the purposes of that Act may be made and altered from time to time by the like persons and in the like manner in which rules and regulations may be made under and for the purposes of the Civil Bill Courts Acts in Ireland:

And whereas by an Act of the 50th and 51st Victoria, cap. 33, intituled "The Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1887," it is enacted that the power of making rules and orders, and of prescribing forms, and of regulating the mode of proving the service, and of proving the date of the service of notices under the said Act, and of determining the persons upon whom notices under the said Act are to be served, and for prescribing anything by the said Act authorised to be prescribed, should in the case of the County Court from time to time be exercised by the authority, and in the manner prescribed by section 79 of the said County Officers and Courts (Ireland) Act, 1877:

And whereas by section 18 of the County Court Appeals (Ireland) Act, 1889,^[1] it is enacted that in the case of proceedings in the County Court under section 6 of the said Act up to and including the signature of a case stated, the power of prescribing anything authorised by the said Act to be prescribed shall be exercised by the authority and subject to the conditions by and subject to which they are exercised under the County Officers and Courts (Ireland) Act, 1877, as amended by any other Act:

And whereas it is expedient to consolidate and amend the several orders, rules, and forms now in use in the County or Civil Bill Courts in Ireland, and to make such further Orders, rules, and forms as are herein-after set forth:

And whereas a meeting of the said Judges having been duly convened for the purpose, the following five of them were selected to frame such rules, orders, and forms as aforesaid,