{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bankruptcy-and-diligence-etc-scotland-act-2007/section-51",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bankruptcy-and-diligence-etc-scotland-act-2007/section-51.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2007/3",
  "legislation_title": "Bankruptcy and Diligence etc. (Scotland) Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bankruptcy-and-diligence-etc-scotland-act-2007",
  "path": "section/51",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "51",
  "heading": "Advisory Council's annual report",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) The Advisory Council on Messengers-at-Arms and Sheriff Officers (the “Advisory Council”) must prepare a report on its activities during the whole of each financial year as soon as practicable after the end of the period to which the report relates.\n(3) A report prepared under subsection (2) above—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) may include a statistical analysis of the performance by officers of court of their functions and the undertaking by officers of activities during the period to which the report relates or any other period specified by the Advisory Council in the report.\n(4) The Advisory Council may, in preparing the report under subsection (2) above, require the professional association designated by regulations under section 63(1)(a) to provide any information provided by virtue of regulations under section 63(1A) which the Advisory Council considers necessary or proper for the purposes of preparing the report.\n(5) The Advisory Council must—\n(a) send a copy of each report prepared under subsection (2) above to the Scottish Ministers; and\n(b) publish the report.\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 51(1) repealed (31.1.2011) by Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 8), s. 134(7), Sch. 4 para. 11(1)(a); S.S.I. 2011/30, art. 3(1)(3), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 51(2) substituted (31.1.2011) by Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 8), s. 134(7), Sch. 4 para. 11(1)(b); S.S.I. 2011/30, art. 3(1)(3), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 51(3)(a) repealed (31.1.2011) by Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 8), s. 134(7), Sch. 4 para. 11(1)(c)(i); S.S.I. 2011/30, art. 3(1)(3), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 51(3)(b) substituted (31.1.2011) by Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 8), s. 134(7), Sch. 4 para. 11(1)(c)(ii); S.S.I. 2011/30, art. 3(1)(3), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 51(3) substituted (31.1.2011) by Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 8), s. 134(7), Sch. 4 para. 11(1)(c)(iii); S.S.I. 2011/30, art. 3(1)(3), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 51(4) substituted (31.1.2011) by Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 8), s. 134(7), Sch. 4 para. 11(1)(d)(i); S.S.I. 2011/30, art. 3(1)(3), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 51(4) substituted (31.1.2011) by Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 8), s. 134(7), Sch. 4 para. 11(1)(d)(ii); S.S.I. 2011/30, art. 3(1)(3), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 51(4) substituted (31.1.2011) by Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 8), s. 134(7), Sch. 4 para. 11(1)(d)(iii); S.S.I. 2011/30, art. 3(1)(3), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 51(5) substituted (31.1.2011) by Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 8), s. 134(7), Sch. 4 para. 11(1)(e); S.S.I. 2011/30, art. 3(1)(3), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "S. 51(6) repealed (31.1.2011) by Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 8), s. 134(7), Sch. 4 para. 11(1)(f); S.S.I. 2011/30, art. 3(1)(3), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in s. 51 title substituted (31.1.2011) by Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 8), s. 134(7), Sch. 4 para. 11(2); S.S.I. 2011/30, art. 3(1)(3), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 51(2)(3)(b)(4)(5) in force at 31.1.2011 by S.S.I. 2011/31, art. 3(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2007/3/section/51",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:03.393234+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."
}