{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/execution-of-diligence-scotland-act-1926/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/execution-of-diligence-scotland-act-1926/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/16-17/16",
  "legislation_title": "Execution of Diligence (Scotland) Act 1926",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/execution-of-diligence-scotland-act-1926",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Sheriff officer to have the powers of a messenger-at-arms in certain places.",
  "text": "In any countysheriff court districtin which there is no resident messenger-at-arms, or in any of the islands of Scotland, a sheriff officer duly authorised to practice in any part of the sheriffdom comprising such countysheriff court districtor island shall have all the powers of a messenger-at-arms in regard to the service of any summons, writ, citation or other proceeding or to the execution of or diligence on, any decree warrant or order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words “sheriff court district” substituted (S.) for word “county” by Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987 (c. 18, SIF 45:2), s. 108, Sch. 6 para. 11, Sch. 7 paras. 5, 9(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 1 modified (S.) (1.4.2008) by Enforcement of Fines (Diligence) (Scotland) Regulations 2008 (S.S.I. 2008/104), regs. 1(1), 3(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/16-17/16/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:41:57.454104+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."
}