Execution Act 1844

XLIV Lord Chancellor authorized to give necessary Directions where Courts shall sit.

And whereas it may be expedient that the Courts of Bankruptcy should hold Sittings in some Matters of Bankruptcy, or Petitions for Protection from Process, at some Place or Places at which such Courts have not hitherto been used to sit; be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Lord Chancellor, at any Time or Times whenever it shall appear to him under the Circumstances of the Case to be expedient, by any Order or Orders, to give the necessary Directions in that Behalf; and every Commissioner and Deputy Registrar acting under any such Order shall have paid to him his travelling and other Expences, in the same Manner and out of the same Fund as travelling and other Expences are directed to be paid by the [5 & 6 Vict. c. 122.] Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for the Amendment of the Law of Bankruptcy, to any Commissioner or Deputy Registrar acting for or in aid of any Commissioner or Deputy Registrar in Cases provided for by such Act.