Sheriffs Act Amendment Act 1873

Public Act		1873 No 4
Date of assent		19 August 1873

	Title
1	Short Title.
2	Interpretation.
3	Where Sheriff not present at sitting of Court, duties of Sheriff may be performed by any person appointed by the Court or Judge.

An Act to amend “The Sheriffs Act, 1858.”

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly, of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1 Short Title.

The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Sheriffs Act Amendment Act, 1873.”

2 Interpretation.

The term “the said Act,” where used herein, means “The Sheriffs Act, 1858;” and this Act shall be read and construed with the said Act as if forming part thereof.

3 Where Sheriff not present at sitting of Court, duties of Sheriff may be performed by any person appointed by the Court or Judge.

Wherever the Sheriff of the Sheriff’s District within which any Court is sitting shall not be present at such sitting, such Court or the Judge thereof may by order appoint the Registrar or Clerk of such Court, or such other person as the Court or Judge may think fit, to exercise and perform, in the name and on behalf of such Sheriff, at and during such sitting or any other period the Court or Judge may order, or in a particular case only, all or any of the powers and duties conferred on, vested in, or imposed upon such Sheriff by the said Act or “The Juries Act, 1868,” or any other Act: And the Court may make to such person, instead of to the Sheriff, any such precept or command as it is authorized to make to such Sheriff.

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