{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-messengers-at-arms-and-sheriff-officers-rules-1991/article-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-messengers-at-arms-and-sheriff-officers-rules-1991/article-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1397",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Sederunt (Messengers-at-Arms and Sheriff Officers Rules) 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-messengers-at-arms-and-sheriff-officers-rules-1991",
  "path": "article/15",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Extra-official activities",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, the extra-official activities of an officer of court may include–\n(a) collection for remuneration of any debt not constituted by decree where authorised to do so under rule 16 below; or\n(b) in the absence of any statutory provision to the contrary, service on a person for remunerat ion of any notice which is required to be served under any enactment.\n(2) An officer of court who performs an extra-official activity under paragraph (1) above shall not state or imply that he is acting in his capacity as an officer of court.\n(3) An officer of court may not be–\n(a) an auctioneer with his own auction room;\n(b) an elected or appointed member of a public or local authority;\n(c) a house factor;\n(d) a member of the Faculty of Advocates;\n(e) a member of the Law Society of Scotland;\n(f) a member of the United Kingdom, or European, Parliament;\n(g) a money lender; or\n(h) a police officer.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted for rule 15(3)(f)-(h)",
      "affecting": "ssi/2013/23",
      "affecting_title": "Act of Sederunt (Messengers-at-Arms and Sheriff Officers Rules) (Amendment) 2013"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1397/article/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:42:44.836530+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."
}