The Short Title of this Act is “The Supreme Court Practice and Procedure Amendment Act, 1884.”

The Registrar of the Supreme Court for the Northern Supreme Court District, for the time being located at New Plymouth, shall have and may exercise, within the district mentioned in the Schedule hereto, the like jurisdiction, powers, and authorities as are conferred by “The Supreme Court Practice and Procedure Amendment Act, 1881,” upon Registrars of the Supreme Court for the Judicial Districts of Nelson and Westland respectively.

No person on Sunday shall serve or execute, or cause to be served or executed, any writ, process, warrant, order, judgment, or decree of the Supreme Court, or of any Court of inferior jurisdiction (except in cases of treason, felony, misdemeanour, or breach of the peace).

The service of every such writ, process, warrant, order, judgment, or decree shall be void to all intents and purposes whatsoever, and the person so serving or executing the same, or causing the same to be so served or executed, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds, to be recovered in a summary way.

Nothing in this section contained shall be construed to annul, repeal, or in any way affect the common law, or the provisions of any statute or rule of practice or procedure, now or which hereafter may be in force, authorizing the service of any writ, process, or warrant, in cases other than as hereinbefore are excepted.

Notwithstanding anything contained in section eighty-four of “The Juries Act, 1880,” section seventy-eight thereof shall be construed for the purpose of reducing the number of jurymen in cases to be heard by a special jury of four men, but for such purpose only and no further, as if the words “twelve names” had been omitted therefrom, and the words “eight names” substituted in lieu thereof.