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Power of county court judges to enforce performance of duties of under-sheriffs.
14 & 15 Vict. c. 57.
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8.—(1) The power of a county court judge under section one hundred and fifty-one of the Civil Bill Courts (Ireland) Act, 1851, to fine an under-sheriff who is guilty of any breach of duty in the execution of that Act shall be extended so as to include a power to fine an under-sheriff who is guilty of any breach of duty in the execution of section sixteen, section nineteen, or section twenty of the Civil Bill Courts Procedure Amendment Act (Ireland), 1864.
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(2) Subject to rules of court, a county court judge may make an order requiring an under-sheriff to return within the period specified in the order any process of a civil bill court which has been delivered to him for execution, with the appropriate statement as to the execution or non-execution thereof endorsed thereon, and, for that purpose and for the purpose of punishing any disobedience of such order, the county court judge shall have and may exercise all such powers as may be exercised by the King’s Bench Division of the High Court in relation to writs of execution of that court.
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