Victorian Consolidated Legislation

County Court Act 1958 - SECT 26

Registrar and bailiff to be distinct persons and not to act as legal practitioner

26. Registrar and bailiff to be distinct persons and not to act as legal
practitioner





(1) No registrar or deputy registrar or partner of any such registrar or
deputy registrar or person in the service or employment of any such registrar
or deputy registrar or of his partner shall act as bailiff and no bailiff or
partner of any such bailiff or person in the service or employment of any such
bailiff or of his partner shall act as registrar or deputy registrar; and no
officer of the court shall either by himself or by his partner be directly or
indirectly engaged as counsel practitioner or agent for any party in any
proceedings in the court.

(2) Every person who being a registrar or deputy registrar of the court or the
partner of any such registrar or deputy registrar or a person in the service
or employment of any such registrar or deputy registrar or of his partner
accepts the office of bailiff of the court, or who being a bailiff of the
court or the partner of any such bailiff or a person in the service or
employment of any such bailiff or of his partner accepts the office of
registrar or deputy registrar in the execution of this Act, and also every
officer of the court who is by himself or his partner or in any way directly
or indirectly concerned as counsel practitioner or agent for any party in any
proceeding in the court, shall for every such offence forfeit and pay the sum
of 5 penalty units with full costs of that proceeding to any person who sues
for the same by proceeding in the Supreme Court.