New Zealand Legislation: Acts
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(1) There shall be a bailiff or such bailiffs for each court as may be necessary, who shall be appointed from time to time.
(1A) A person who is appointed as a bailiff may exercise the powers and perform the functions and duties of a bailiff of any District Court.
(2) A Judge may appoint a constable or other person to act for a particular occasion as bailiff at any court or place.
(3) Whenever any summons, writ, warrant, or other process issued under the authority of this Act is received by any constable for service or execution, the constable in the service or execution of the process shall for all the purposes of this Act be deemed to be a bailiff duly appointed under the provisions of this section.
Compare: 1928 No 14 s 20(1), (3)
Section 15(1A): inserted, on 23 July 2011, by section 7 of the District Courts Amendment Act 2011 (2011 No 30).
Section 15(2): amended, on 1 April 1980, pursuant to section 18(1) of the District Courts Amendment Act 1979 (1979 No 125).
