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Imprisonment for Debt Abolition Act Amendment Act 1875

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Registrar or Deputy to have power to order arrest of defendant about to quit New Zealand.

Imprisonment for Debt Abolition Act Amendment Act 1875

Public Act		1875 No 39
Date of assent		12 October 1875

	Title
1	Short Title.
2	Registrar or Deputy to have power to order arrest of defendant about to quit New Zealand.

An Act to amend “The Imprisonment for Debt Abolition Act, 1874.”

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1 Short Title.

The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Imprisonment for Debt Abolition Act Amendment Act, 1875.”

2 Registrar or Deputy to have power to order arrest of defendant about to quit New Zealand.

All the powers conferred upon a Judge of the Supreme Court by the fifteenth section of the said Act shall be, and the same are, hereby conferred upon, and may be exercised by, the Registrar or Deputy Registrar of the said Court: Provided that such powers shall only be exercised by the said Registrar or Deputy Registrar in the absence of such Judge from the place where the office of the Supreme Court is situated at which the application for the order mentioned in such section is made.

Imprisonment for Debt Abolition Act Amendment Act 1875