{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-proceedings-etc-reform-scotland-act-2007/section-77",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-proceedings-etc-reform-scotland-act-2007/section-77.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2007/6",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Proceedings etc. (Reform) (Scotland) Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-proceedings-etc-reform-scotland-act-2007",
  "path": "section/77",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "77",
  "heading": "Records and validity of appointment etc.",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers are to maintain (in such form as they consider appropriate)—\n(a) a list of all persons holding office as a JP ...,\n(b) a record of—\n(i) the instruments of appointment of those persons,\n(ii) any order removing a JP ... from office.\n(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 ... appointed for the sheriffdom containing that sheriff court.\n(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.\n(4) No appointment of a JP, nor any act of a JP, is invalidated solely because—\n(a) provision made under section 67(5) is not complied with,\n(b) the residential requirement referred to in section 68(1) is not met, or\n(c) a condition imposed under section 68(2) is not met.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 77(1)(a) repealed (1.4.2016) by Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 18), s. 138(2), sch. 5 para. 40(7)(a); S.S.I. 2016/13, art. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 77(1)(b)(ii) repealed (1.4.2016) by Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 18), s. 138(2), sch. 5 para. 40(7)(a); S.S.I. 2016/13, art. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 77(2) repealed (1.4.2016) by Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 18), s. 138(2), sch. 5 para. 40(7)(b); S.S.I. 2016/13, art. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 77(5) repealed (1.4.2016) by Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 18), s. 138(2), sch. 5 para. 40(7)(c); S.S.I. 2016/13, art. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "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"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2007/6/section/77",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:00.103957+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."
}