{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-messengers-at-arms-and-sheriff-officers-rules-1988/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-messengers-at-arms-and-sheriff-officers-rules-1988/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/2097",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Sederunt (Messengers-at-Arms and Sheriff Officers Rules) 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-messengers-at-arms-and-sheriff-officers-rules-1988",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Renewals of professional indemnity insurance",
  "text": "(1) Each year every officer of court shall lodge, in accordance with the following paragraphs of this rule, a premium receipt from an insurance company stating that he is covered for professional indemnity insurance to a minimum of £100,000 within 30 days after the date of expiry of any current premium receipt.\n(2) Such a premium receipt shall be lodged with the regional sheriff clerk of the sheriffdom in which the sheriff officer’s first current commission as a sheriff officer was granted.\n(3) The regional sheriff clerk shall issue to the sheriff officer a letter of receipt of such a premium receipt and such copy letters of receipt as may be required by the sheriff officer.\n(4) Where a sheriff officer holds a commission as a sheriff officer in more than one sheriffdom, he shall send to the sheriff principal of every sheriffdom in which he holds such a commission (other than the first current commission) a copy letter of receipt of such a premium receipt issued by the regional sheriff clerk.\n(5) Where a sheriff officer is also a messenger-at-arms, he shall send to the Lyon clerk a copy of letter of receipt of such a premium receipt issued by the regional sheriff clerk in respect of his commission as a sheriff officer.\n(6) Where an officer of court fails to lodge such a premium receipt under paragraph (1) of this rule—\n(a) in respect of his commission as a sheriff officer, the sheriff principal may suspend the officer of court from practice as a sheriff officer until such a premium receipt has been lodged; and\n(b) where applicable, in respect of his commission as a messenger-at-arms, the Court of Session may, following a report sent to the Deputy Principal Clerk of Session by the Lyon clerk suspend the officer of court from practice as a messenger-at-arms until such a premium receipt has been lodged.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/2097/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:53:48.933597+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}