Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

SUPREME COURT ACT 1933 - SECT 52

    (1)     If the sheriff or a deputy sheriff is a party to a cause in the court, any process of the court in the cause that would, except for this section, be directed to the sheriff or the deputy (as the case may be) shall be directed to a disinterested person appointed by the court.

    (2)     A person appointed under subsection (1) shall—

        (a)     serve or execute a process directed to him or her; and

        (b)     make due return of the process to the court.

    (3)     In exercising the functions of the sheriff or deputy sheriff, a person appointed under subsection (1) has all the rights, privileges, immunities and liabilities of the sheriff or a deputy sheriff (as the case requires).