{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-reform-scotland-act-2014/section-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-reform-scotland-act-2014/section-15.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2014/18",
  "legislation_title": "Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-reform-scotland-act-2014",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Disqualification from practice, etc.",
  "text": "(1) An individual holding a judicial office mentioned in subsection (2) must not, for so long as the individual holds the office—\n(a) engage, whether directly or indirectly, in practice as a solicitor or advocate or in any other business,\n(b) be in partnership with, or employed by, a person so engaged, or\n(c) act as agent for a person so engaged.\n(2) The judicial offices are—\n(a) sheriff principal,\n(b) sheriff,\n(c) summary sheriff.\n(3) A part-time sheriff, or a part-time summary sheriff, who is a solicitor in practice must not carry out any function as a part-time sheriff or, as the case may be, a part-time summary sheriff in a sheriff court district in which his or her place of business as such solicitor is situated.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 15 in force at 1.4.2015 by S.S.I. 2015/77, art. 2(2)(3), Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2014/18/section/15",
    "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."
}