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Article 4 Qualification as messenger-at-arms

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

A sheriff officer may not become a messenger-at-arms unless–

(a)

subject to paragraph (2) below, he has been in practice as a sheriff officer for a period of not less than two years; and

(b)

within five years before applying to the Court of Session for recommendation for appointment as a messenger-at-arms, he has passed all such examinations as may be required by the committee of examiners.

(2)

The Court of Session may, in an application to which rule 7 below applies, on special cause shown, reduce the period of practice required under paragraph (1)(a) above.