Section 12
Subordinate Officers
(1)
There shall be attached to the Intermediate Courts such interpreters, clerks, bailiffs, process-servers and other officers as, from time to time, appear to the Chief Justice to be necessary for the administration of justice and the due execution of all powers and duties which are vested in the
Intermediate Courts.
(2)
Bailiffs, process-servers and any person generally or specially authorised to do so shall execute all writs, summonses, warrants, orders,
Intermediate Courts
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notices and other mandatory processes of an Intermediate Court given to them, and shall make a return of the same together with the manner of the execution thereof to the Court from which the process was issued, and shall arrest and receive all such persons and property as are committed to the custody of the Intermediate Court.
(3)
A bailiff or other person in executing any writ of seizure and sale or any other writ of execution or of distress may effect an entry into any building, and for that purpose, if necessary, may break open any outer or inner door or window of the building or any receptacle therein, using such force as is reasonably necessary to effect an entry.