District Court Act 1973

An assistant registrar for a proclaimed place has and may exercise—

in the case of an action to which the Civil Procedure Act 2005 applies, the functions conferred on the assistant registrar pursuant to section 12 or 13 of that Act, or

in any other case, such of the registrar’s functions as may be prescribed by the civil procedure rules or the criminal procedure rules.

An assistant Principal Registrar may exercise any or all of the functions of the Principal Registrar in respect of any place in the State.

Anything done or omitted to be done by an assistant registrar for a proclaimed place in the exercise of the assistant registrar’s functions under this Act shall, for the purposes of this Act, have the same effect as if it had been done or omitted by the registrar for that proclaimed place.

Nothing in this section affects the functions of any registrar.