Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Landlord and Tenant Act 1958 - SECT 24

Indemnity to sheriff and others

24. Indemnity to sheriff and others

No such sheriff or other officer nor any deputy agent bailiff or servant of a
sheriff or other officer, nor any person who purchases any hay straw chaff
turnips grass or grasses or other produce and things hereinbefore mentioned
under the provisions aforesaid nor the servant of such person, shall be deemed
or taken to be a trespasser, by reason of his coming upon or remaining in
possession of any barns or other buildings yards or fields for the purpose of
threshing out or consuming any straw hay turnips or other produce hereinbefore
mentioned under the provisions aforesaid, or for doing any matter or thing
whatsoever fit and necessary to be done for the purpose of executing the same
and carrying into effect all stipulations contained in any agreement made
under such provisions, though such acts are done by or on behalf of such
sheriff or other officer or by such person or his servant after the return of
the process under which such sheriff or other officer has acted.