New Zealand Legislation: Acts
Acts are laws made by Parliament
(1) There shall from time to time be appointed for each court a Registrar.
(2) One person may be appointed Registrar for 2 or more courts.
(2A) A person who is appointed as a Registrar may exercise the powers and perform the functions and duties of the Registrar of any District Court.
(3) Each person who on the commencement of this Act holds office as the Clerk of any court shall without further appointment be deemed to have been appointed Registrar of that court.
(4) All references to a Clerk of any court in any Act, rule, regulation, or other enactment, or in any judgment, order, contract, agreement, or other document whatsoever, shall, unless inconsistent with the context, be hereafter read as references to the Registrar of that court.
Compare: 1928 No 14 s 15
Section 12(2A): inserted, on 23 July 2011, by section 5 of the District Courts Amendment Act 2011 (2011 No 30).
