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SUPREME COURT ACT 1935 - SECT 156

SUPREME COURT ACT 1935 - SECT 156

156 .         Sheriff

        (1)         The sheriff shall be an officer of the Supreme Court, and shall be charged with the service and execution of all writs, applications, summonses, rules, orders, warrants, precepts, process and commands of the Court which are directed to him, and shall make such return of the same to the Court together with the manner of the execution thereof as he is thereby required, and shall take, receive, and detain all persons who are committed to his custody by the Court, and shall discharge all such persons when thereunto directed by the Court or the law.

        (2)         The sheriff is also an officer of the District Court and the Magistrates Court and has the same functions in respect of those courts as in respect of the Supreme Court, including those under subsection (1).

        (3)         The sheriff may delegate to a bailiff appointed under the Civil Judgments Enforcement Act 2004 , on any terms the sheriff thinks fit, the performance of any function under subsection (1).

        (4)         If a delegation is made under subsection (3), the Civil Judgments Enforcement Act 2004 section 109(2) and (4) to (8) apply with any necessary changes.

        [Section 156 amended: No. 59 of 2004 s. 128; No. 5 of 2008 s. 120.]

[ 157.         Deleted: No. 59 of 2004 s. 128.]