Section 77 Records and validity of appointment etc.I1

Scotland

(1)

The Scottish Ministers are to maintain (in such form as they consider appropriate)—

(a)

a list of all persons holding office as a JP F1...,

(b)

a record of—

(i)

the instruments of appointment of those persons,

(ii)

any order removing a JP F2... from office.

(2)

The Scottish Ministers are to send to the clerk of each sheriff court a copy of the list and record mentioned in subsection (1) so far as relating to JPs F3... appointed for the sheriffdom containing that sheriff court.

(3)

Where a sheriff clerk is sent a copy of something under subsection (2), the clerk is to make it available (in such form as the clerk considers appropriate) for public inspection.

(4)

No appointment of a JP, nor any act of a JP, is invalidated solely because—

(a)

provision made under section 67(5) is not complied with,

(b)

the residential requirement referred to in section 68(1) is not met, or

(c)

a condition imposed under section 68(2) is not met.

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Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in s. 77(1)(a) repealed (1.4.2016) by Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 18), s. 138(2), sch. 5 para. 40(7)(a); S.S.I. 2016/13, art. 2, sch.
F2: Words in s. 77(1)(b)(ii) repealed (1.4.2016) by Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 18), s. 138(2), sch. 5 para. 40(7)(a); S.S.I. 2016/13, art. 2, sch.
F3: Words in s. 77(2) repealed (1.4.2016) by Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 18), s. 138(2), sch. 5 para. 40(7)(b); S.S.I. 2016/13, art. 2, sch.
F4: S. 77(5) repealed (1.4.2016) by Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 18), s. 138(2), sch. 5 para. 40(7)(c); S.S.I. 2016/13, art. 2, sch.

Commencement

I1: S. 77 wholly in force at 22.2.2010; s. 77 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 84; s. 77(1)(4) in force at 10.12.2007 by S.S.I. 2007/479, art. 3, Sch.; s. 77(2)(3)(5) in force for certain purposes at 10.3.2008, 2.6.2008, 8.12.2008, 23.2.2009, 14.12.2009 and 22.2.2010 otherwise by S.S.I. 2008/42, art. 3, Sch.; S.S.I. 2008/192, art. 3, Sch.; S.S.I. 2008/329, art. 3, Sch.; S.S.I. 2008/362, art. 3, Sch.; S.S.I. 2009/432, art. 3(1)(2), Sch. 1, Sch. 2