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Sentencing Act 2002

Sentences, orders, and related matters - Discharge and miscellaneous orders - Confiscation of motor vehicles

135: Registrar may direct order to be enforced in another office of District Court

You could also call this:

"A court can enforce an order in a different court office if it's more convenient."

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If you have a court order to confiscate a motor vehicle, it is usually enforced in the office of the District Court where the order was made. But if a Registrar thinks it would be better to enforce the order in a different District Court office, they can direct that it be enforced there instead, even if it says something different in section 132. The Registrar's direction means that certain rules, like sections 132 to 134 and sections 137 to 141, will still apply to the order.

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Part 2Sentences, orders, and related matters
Discharge and miscellaneous orders: Confiscation of motor vehicles

135Registrar may direct order to be enforced in another office of District Court

  1. Despite anything in section 132, if a Registrar considers that an order for the confiscation of a motor vehicle made in one office of the District Court may be more effectively enforced in another office of the District Court, the Registrar may direct that the order be enforced in that other office.

  2. If the Registrar makes a direction under subsection (1), sections 132 to 134 and sections 137 to 141 apply accordingly.

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Notes
  • Section 135 heading: amended, on , by section 261 of the District Court Act 2016 (2016 No 49).
  • Section 135(1): replaced, on , by section 261 of the District Court Act 2016 (2016 No 49).