{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-reform-scotland-act-2014/section-128",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-reform-scotland-act-2014/section-128.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2014/18",
  "legislation_title": "Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-reform-scotland-act-2014",
  "path": "section/128",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "128",
  "heading": "Abolition of the office of stipendiary magistrate",
  "text": "(1) The office of stipendiary magistrate is abolished.\n(2) Subsection (3) applies to a person who, immediately before this section comes into force, holds office as a full-time stipendiary magistrate.\n(3) The person is to be appointed, by virtue of this subsection, as a summary sheriff unless the person declines the appointment.\n(4) Subsection (3) applies regardless of whether the person is qualified for appointment as a summary sheriff.\n(5) Subsection (6) applies to a person who, immediately before this section comes into force, holds office as a part-time stipendiary magistrate.\n(6) The person is to be appointed, by virtue of this subsection, as a part-time summary sheriff unless the person declines the appointment.\n(7) Subsection (6) applies regardless of whether the person is qualified for appointment as a part-time summary sheriff.\n(8) A person appointed—\n(a) as a summary sheriff by virtue of subsection (3) is to be treated for all purposes as if appointed as such under section 5(2),\n(b) as a part-time summary sheriff by virtue of subsection (6) is to be treated for all purposes as if appointed as such under section 10(1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 128 in force at 1.4.2016 by S.S.I. 2016/13, art. 2, Sch. (with art. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2014/18/section/128",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:13:59.973943+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."
}