{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bridgend-and-the-vale-of-glamorgan-areas-order-1996/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bridgend-and-the-vale-of-glamorgan-areas-order-1996/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2915",
  "legislation_title": "The Bridgend and The Vale of Glamorgan (Areas) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bridgend-and-the-vale-of-glamorgan-areas-order-1996",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Sheriffs",
  "text": "(1) In this article—\n“transferee sheriff” means the high sheriff for the preserved county of Mid Glamorgan;\n“transferor sheriff” means the high sheriff for the preserved county of South Glamorgan.\n(2) Any person who, immediately before 1st April 1997, is qualified under section 4 of the Sheriffs Act 1887 (qualification of sheriffs) to be appointed High Sheriff for the preserved county of South Glamorgan by reason of holding land in the transferred area shall, for a period of two years from that date, continue to be qualified to be appointed High Sheriff for the preserved county of South Glamorgan.\n(3) The transferor sheriff shall, on or as soon as reasonably practicable after 1st April 1997,—\n(a) perform (so far as they relate to persons or things in the transferred area) all the duties which are required by section 28(1) of the Act of 1887 (outgoing sheriff to turn over prisoners and process to incoming sheriff) to be performed at the expiration of a sheriff’s term of office; and\n(b) transfer to the custody of the transferee sheriff all documents of whatever description relating to the transferred area.\n(4) In section 28(1) and (2) of the Act of 1887 the references to an “incoming sheriff” shall, so far as they apply by virtue of the preceding paragraphs, be construed from 1st April 1997 as including a reference to the transferee sheriff.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1887 c. 55; certain words in section 4 were repealed by Schedule 30 to the Local Government Act 1972."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2915/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:31:53.981913+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."
}