The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Commissioners of the Supreme Court Act, 1875.”

It shall be lawful for any Judge of the Supreme Court, by a Commission to be issued under the seal of the said Court, to appoint any person or persons to be and act as a Commissioner or Commissioners of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in any country or place beyond the jurisdiction of the said Court, for the purpose of administering and taking any oath affidavit or affirmation whether in any action suit cause proceeding matter or thing commenced or pending in the said Court or in any Court of concurrent or inferior jurisdiction in the said colony, or in any proceeding matter or thing whatsoever within the cognizance or jurisdiction of any such Court.

Every oath affidavit or affirmation which shall be taken or made before any such Commissioner as aforesaid shall, within the colony, be of the like effect in all respects as if the same had been administered made or taken by or before any Court or persons having authority to administer or take the same within the Colony of New Zealand.

It shall be lawful for any Judge of the Supreme Court in the manner aforesaid to appoint Commissioners in any country or place beyond the limits of the colony for taking acknowledgments of married women under any Act or law in force in the colony requiring such acknowledgments to be made or taken.

Every Commissioner appointed under the provisions of this Act may do all the acts and shall have perform and exercise all the powers duties and authorities which may be done performed or exercised by a Commissioner appointed for a like purpose under any law in force in the Colony of New Zealand.

Any Commission issued under the authority of this Act may be revoked by any Judge of the Supreme Court for any cause which to such Judge shall seem sufficient; but no such revocation shall affect or prejudice any act matter or thing done by any Commissioner by virtue of his commission prior to a notification of such revocation having been given or sent to him.

Every appointment of a Commissioner under this Act shall be notified in the New Zealand Gazette, and every revocation of any such appointment shall also be notified in the said Gazette, and shall state the date when notice of revocation was sent to the Commissioner affected by such notice.