Queensland Consolidated Regulations

UNIFORM CIVIL PROCEDURE RULES 1999 - REG 826

826 Enforcement beyond the district

(1) This rule applies if an enforcement warrant for the seizure and sale of property has been issued out of a Magistrates Court registry in 1 Magistrates Court district (the
"original district" ) and the enforcement debtor or any of the enforcement debtor’s property is believed to be in another Magistrates Court district (the
"receiving district" ).

(2) The registrar of the court in the original district (the
"original registrar" ) may issue the enforcement warrant and send it to the registrar of the court in the receiving district (the
"receiving registrar" ).

(3) The receiving registrar must—

(a) record the enforcement warrant; and

(b) stamp the enforcement warrant with the court seal; and

(c) issue the enforcement warrant to an enforcement officer in the receiving district and record having issued it.

(4) An enforcement officer in the receiving district—

(a) is authorised and required to act as if the enforcement warrant had been directed to the enforcement officer; and

(b) must, within a reasonable time, report in writing to the receiving registrar about what the enforcement officer has done to enforce the warrant; and

(c) must, within a reasonable time, give the receiving registrar any money received in the enforcement of the warrant together with a claim for any fee for enforcement.

(5) If the receiving registrar is given money under subrule (4) (c) , the receiving registrar must, within a reasonable time and after payment of any fee claimed under the subrule, send it to the original registrar.