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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-reform-scotland-act-2014/section-49",
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  "legislation": "asp/2014/18",
  "legislation_title": "Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-reform-scotland-act-2014",
  "path": "section/49",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "49",
  "heading": "Sheriffs principal to be Appeal Sheriffs",
  "text": "(1) Each person who holds office as a sheriff principal also holds office as an Appeal Sheriff by virtue of this subsection.\n(2) A person holding office as a sheriff principal ceases to hold office as an Appeal Sheriff if the person ceases to hold office as a sheriff principal.\n(3) If a person holding office as a sheriff principal is suspended from that office for any period, the person is also suspended from office as an Appeal Sheriff for the same period.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 49 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/49",
    "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."
}