Section 94 Sheriffs and Civil Process Act

Section 94 of the Sheriffs and Civil Process Act 1945 is about Rules of court. It provides as follows:

The Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, with the approval of the
President, and the Chief Judge of a State, with the approval of the Governor, may make rules of court in respect of any or all of the following matters-
[L.N. 47 of 1955.]
(a) the duties of bailiffs;

(b) the procedure to be adopted by bailiffs and others on the receipt of money paid or received at a sale in execution or otherwise in respect of process of execution and the accounting therefor;
(c) the fees and allowances, if any, to be paid to, or for the use of the services of
bailiffs and other officers of the court;

(d) the fees to be paid in respect of any application or the filing of any document
or in respect of anything done or furnished under this evidence;
(e) the conditions precedent to the issue of any process;
(f) the issue of process to or against any person or class of persons;

(g) anything to be done by any person in respect of the issue or execution of process;
(h) the method of attaching any property;
(i) the enforcement of judgments not for the payment of money;
(j) the procedure in execution against immovable property;

(k) the entertainment and adjudication of claims to property attached or sold In execution;
(l) the custody or disposal of property attached;
(m) the appointment of managers or receivers over attached or sequestrated property;

(n) the procedure on sale in execution of writs and the persons by whom such
sales may be conducted;
(0) the method of transfer of property, movable or immovable, shares, securities and other chattels on sales in execution of writs;

(p) the circumstances in which proceedings in process may be transferred from
one court in a division or district to another court in the same division or district or to a court in another division or district;

(q) the procedure to be followed in the High Court upon an application of a judgment creditor in a magistrate’s court for a writ of execution in respect of immovable property;

(r) prescribing anything or any person requires by Parts III, IV, V and VI of this
Act to be prescribed; and

(s) generally for giving effect to the provisions and intentions of Parts III, IV, V
and VI of this Act and prescribing and regulating procedure thereunder.

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