# Criminal Proceedings etc. (Reform) (Scotland) Act 2007, Section 77: Records and validity of appointment etc.

Extent: S

(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 ...,
(b) a record of—
(i) the instruments of appointment of those persons,
(ii) any order removing a JP ... 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 ... 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.
(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2007/6/section/77 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-proceedings-etc-reform-scotland-act-2007/section-77
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