(1) When a writ of execution against the land or goods of any person has issued out of the Supreme Court, and a writ or warrant of execution against the land or goods of the same person has issued out of the Court and out of a Local Court, or has issued out of either of those Courts, the right to the property seized shall be determined by the priority of the time of the delivery of the writ so issued out of the Supreme Court to the Sheriff to be executed, or the time of the application to a Registrar or the Clerk for the issue from the Court or the Local Court, of the writ or warrant of execution, whichever is the earlier or earliest as the case may be.

(2) For the purposes of determining the priority referred to in subsection (1), the Sheriff, the Principal Registrar and the Clerk of the Local Court shall, on request the one to the other, give information to the one requesting it, as to the precise time of the delivery of the writ so issued out of the Supreme Court or the precise time of the application to the Registrar or the Clerk for the issue from the Court or the Local Court of the writ or warrant of execution, as the case may be.

[Section 86A inserted by No. 14 of 1970 s.11; amended by No. 53 of 1992 s.9(3).]