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Senior Courts Act 2016

High Court - Registrars, Sheriffs, and officers of High Court

38: Service of process when Sheriff disqualified

You could also call this:

"What happens when the Sheriff can't do their job"

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If the Sheriff cannot do their job because of the law, the court chooses someone else to do it. You need to know that the court keeps a record of why the process is happening. The court keeps this information so it can be looked at later.

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Part 2High Court
Registrars, Sheriffs, and officers of High Court

38Service of process when Sheriff disqualified

  1. If the Sheriff is disqualified by law from executing any process that has been issued, the court must authorise a fit person to execute the process.

  2. The cause of the process must be entered in the records of the court.

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