14.— (1) Notwithstanding any other enactment, the Courts Service may establish a combined court office in accordance with this section and section 16.

(2) In establishing a combined court office under subsection (1), the Courts Service shall—

(a) designate two or more court offices to be constituent court offices of that combined court office, and

(b) specify the business of the constituent court offices that shall be transacted in the combined court office.

(3) The Courts Service shall, as soon as may be after a combined court office is established, publish notice of that fact and of the matters referred to in subsection (2) relating to that office in Iris Oifigiúil, but failure to so publish shall not affect the validity of the establishment of the combined court office concerned.