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established by this Ordinance.

15 Practice and procedure

 (1) Subject to this Ordinance and to rules of court made under this Ordinance, and except as otherwise directed by the Supreme Court at any stage of the matter, the practice and procedure in and in relation to a matter in the Supreme Court shall be the practice and procedure provided by law in relation to matters of that kind in the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory immediately before the commencement of this Ordinance.

 (2) In this section, practice and procedure includes matters relating to:
 (a) the attendance of witnesses;
 (b) the custody or bail of accused or convicted persons; and
 (c) the enforcement and execution of judgments, orders, decrees, convictions and sentences.

Part III Administration

16 Principal seat and sittings

 (1) The principal seat of the Supreme Court shall be at West Island.

 (2) Sittings of the Supreme Court shall be held at the principal seat from time to time as is necessary and at such places other than the principal seat as the judge thinks fit.

 (3) The Supreme Court may, at any stage of a proceeding, order that the proceeding be continued at a place and time specified in the order, and may from time to time vary any such order.

 (4) Sittings of the Supreme Court may be held at a place in Australia outside the Territory for the purpose of hearing and determining a matter, otherwise than in the exercise of its criminal jurisdiction, if the Court is satisfied that the hearing of the matter outside the Territory is not contrary to the interests of justice.

17 Registries

  The Minister may establish such registries of the Supreme Court, either within the Territory or at places in Australia outside the Territory, as he thinks fit and shall notify the establishment of any such registry in the Gazette.

18 Registrar and other officers

 (1) The Minister may appoint a Registrar, a Sheriff and such Deputy Registrars, Deputy Sheriffs and other officers of the Supreme Court as are necessary.

 (2) A Deputy Registrar has and may exercise all the powers, and may perform all the functions, of the Registrar.

 (3) Where a power or duty is conferred or imposed by law, including subsection (2), on a Deputy Registrar, that Deputy Registrar may exercise that power or perform that duty either within the Territory or at a place in Australia outside the Territory.

18A Sheriff of the Territory

 (1) 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