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Where the Minister does not appoint a Sheriff of the Territory under section 18, the Sheriff of the Australian Capital Territory shall be the Sheriff of the Territory.

 (2) The Sheriff:
 (a) is charged with the service and execution of all writs, orders, warrants, precepts, process and commands of the Court that are directed to the Sheriff; and
 (b) shall take, receive and detain all persons who are committed to the custody of the Sheriff by the Court, and shall discharge all such persons when directed by the Court or otherwise required by law.

 (3) A Deputy Sheriff may, subject to any directions of the Sheriff, exercise or perform any of the powers and functions of the Sheriff.

 (4) The Sheriff or a Deputy Sheriff may authorise such persons as he or she thinks fit to assist him or her in the exercise of any power or the performance of any function.

 (5) When the Sheriff or a Deputy Sheriff is a party to a cause in the Court, all writs, summonses, orders, warrants, precepts, process and commands in the cause which should in the ordinary course be directed to him or her shall be directed to such disinterested person as the Court or the Judge appoints, and the person so appointed may execute and return them.

19 Seal

 (1) The Supreme Court shall have a seal of the Court for sealing writs and other instruments or documents issued out of the Court and requiring to be sealed.

 (2) The Court shall also, for the purposes of authentication, have a seal or stamp with which summonses, office copies, certificates, reports and other documents requiring authentication may be sealed or stamped.

Part IV Miscellaneous

21 Informations before Supreme Court

 (1) A person committed for trial for an offence triable by the Supreme Court may be put upon his trial before that Court by information in the name of the Attorney-General of the Commonwealth or the Director of Public Prosecutions.

 (2) The Director of Public Prosecutions has, in relation to persons committed for trial before the Supreme Court, the same powers as the Attorney-General of the Commonwealth had, in relation to persons committed for trial before the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory, immediately before the commencement of this Ordinance.

22 Commissioners for affidavits

  The judge may, by commission under the seal of the Court, authorize as many persons as he thinks necessary to take and receive affidavits concerning a matter within the jurisdiction of the Court.

23 Rules of court

  The judge of the Supreme Court may make rules of court for regulating the practice and procedure of the Court, and for prescribing all matters and things which are necessary