New Zealand Legislation: Acts
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(1) A Judge may from time to time appoint a deputy to act for a bailiff, when he is prevented by illness or other cause from acting in his office, and in the case of the death of a bailiff may appoint a deputy to act in the place of the bailiff until another appointment is made, and may remove any such deputy at his pleasure.
(1A) A person who is appointed as a deputy bailiff may exercise the powers and perform the functions and duties of a deputy bailiff of any District Court.
(2) Any deputy appointed as aforesaid, while acting under such appointment, shall, both under this Act and under any other Act, have the same powers and privileges, perform the same duties, and be subject to the same provisions and penalties as if he were the bailiff for the time being, whether those powers, privileges, duties, provisions, or penalties are conferred, imposed, or enacted under this Act or that other Act, or not.
Compare: 1928 No 14 s 21
Section 16(1): amended, on 1 April 1980, pursuant to section 18(1) of the District Courts Amendment Act 1979 (1979 No 125).
Section 16(1A): inserted, on 23 July 2011, by section 8 of the District Courts Amendment Act 2011 (2011 No 30).
