Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The central sheriff, the northern sheriff and the far northern sheriff are deputies of the sheriff of Queensland for the execution of all writs, summonses, rules, orders, warrants, precepts, commands and processes of the court that are to be executed within their respective districts.
(2) A writ, summons, rule, order, warrant, precept, command or process of the court wherever it is to be executed must be directed to the sheriff of Queensland.
(3) For the purpose of deciding any question of priority between writs of execution or other process, the office of the sheriff at Brisbane and the offices of the central sheriff, northern sheriff and far northern sheriff are taken to be the same office.