Enforcement of Court Orders Act, 1926.

Under-sheriff may sell outside his bailiwick.

9.—(1) Any under-sheriff who takes goods, animals, or other chattels in execution under any execution order may sell such goods, animals and chattels by public auction at such place or places, whether within or outside his bailiwick, in which in his opinion such goods, animals and chattels can be sold to the best advantage, and may remove such goods, animals, and chattels or any of them or cause same to be removed from the place where same were seized to such place or places of sale.

(2) All goods, animals, and other chattels taken in execution by an under-sheriff under any execution order may pending the sale thereof be impounded, stored and kept by the under-sheriff in such place or places as he shall think fit, and notwithstanding that such place or places is or are not appointed or authorised by law to be used as pounds.

(3) The under-sheriff shall be sole judge of the place or places at which any goods, animals, or other chattels taken in execution by him can be sold to the best advantage and no action shall lie against any under-sheriff on account of his having sold any such goods, animals, or chattels as aforesaid outside his bailiwick.