19Magistrate may discharge duties of the clerk of petty sessions

### 19 Magistrate may discharge duties of the clerk of petty sessions > > (1)  *\[Section 19 Subsection (1) amended by No. 108 of 1974, s. 3 and s. 38 and Sched. 1 \]*In a district where the office of clerk of petty sessions is vacant or at a place at which no clerk of petty sessions or deputy clerk of petty sessions is present, the magistrate acting in that place may discharge all or any of the duties of the clerk of petty sessions, and all acts done by that magistrate in pursuance of this section are as valid as if done by the clerk, and all notices required to be given to the clerk, and all other matters and things required to be done with or in reference to the clerk, may be given to or done with or in reference to that magistrate, and shall have the like force and effect. > > > (2)  The justices in petty sessions at that place or the Minister may require that any of such duties, acts, matters, and things as they or he shall think convenient shall be done by, with, or in reference to some police officer, and thereupon those acts, matters, and things if so done shall be as valid as if done by, with, or in reference to the clerk of petty sessions.