{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-reform-scotland-act-2014/section-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-reform-scotland-act-2014/section-20.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2014/18",
  "legislation_title": "Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-reform-scotland-act-2014",
  "path": "section/20",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Cessation of appointment of judicial officers",
  "text": "(1) A judicial officer mentioned in subsection (3) may resign at any time by giving notice to that effect to the Scottish Ministers.\n(2) An individual's appointment as such a judicial officer ends—\n(a) when the individual resigns in accordance with subsection (1),\n(b) when the individual retires from office,\n(c) if the individual is removed from office as such under section 25, or\n(d) if the individual is appointed as another such judicial officer.\n(3) The judicial officers are—\n(a) a sheriff principal,\n(b) a sheriff,\n(c) a summary sheriff,\n(d) a part-time sheriff,\n(e) a part-time summary sheriff.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 20 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/20",
    "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."
}