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CIVIL PROCEDURE ACT 2005 - SECT 106
Judgments for payment of money
106 Judgments for payment of money
(cf Act No 9 1973, section 109; Act No 8 1901, sections 4 and 5)
(1) A
judgment debt may be enforced by means of any one or more of the following--
(a) a writ for the levy of property,
(b) a garnishee order,
(c) in the case
of a judgment of the Supreme Court or the District Court, a charging order.
(2) Subject to the uniform rules, a writ for the levy of property is
sufficient authority for the Sheriff-- (a) to seize and to sell goods of or to
which the judgment debtor is or may be possessed or entitled or which the
judgment debtor may, at law or in equity, assign or dispose of, and
(b) to
seize money belonging to the judgment debtor, and
(c) to seize and to realise
cheques, bills of exchange, promissory notes, bonds, specialties or other
securities for money belonging to the judgment debtor, and
(d) to enter into
possession of, and to sell, land of or to which the judgment debtor is seized
or entitled, or which the judgment debtor may, at law or in equity, assign or
dispose of, and
(e) to take and to sell choses in action or equitable
interests in goods or land held by the judgment debtor.
(3) The power
conferred on the Sheriff by subsection (2) (a) may not be exercised in
relation to any property referred to in section 116 (2) of the
Bankruptcy Act 1966 of the Commonwealth. For that purpose, a reference in
section 116 (2) of that Act to the property of the bankrupt is taken to be a
reference to the goods of the judgment debtor.
(4) For the purposes of
subsection (2) (d), the Sheriff is taken to have entered into possession of
land when notice of the proposed sale of the land is published in accordance
with the uniform rules.
(4A) The power conferred on the Sheriff by subsection
(2) (a) may not be exercised if, in the opinion of the Sheriff, the cost of
the seizure, storage or sale of the goods would likely exceed the sale price
of the goods.
(5) The power conferred on the Sheriff by subsection (2) (d)
may not be exercised in relation to land if the amount outstanding under the
judgment is less than the jurisdictional limit of the Local Court when sitting
in its Small Claims Division.
(6) A garnishee order or charging order
addressed to the Crown binds the Crown as garnishee or chargee, as the case
requires.
Note--: Divisions 2, 3 and 4, respectively, apply to the
enforcement of writs for the levy of property, garnishee orders and
charging orders.
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