Section 2 Lord Advocate and Solicitor General for Scotland.

Any functions authorised or required, by any enactment or otherwise, to be discharged by the Lord Advocate may be discharged by the Solicitor General for Scotland, if—

During any period when the office of Lord Advocate is vacant, any certificate, notice, information, intimation, proceedings or other matter or thing whatsoever authorised or required by any enactment to be given, made, directed or done to or against the Lord Advocate may be given, made, directed or done to or against the Solicitor General for Scotland.

In this section the expression “enactment” includes any enactment passed before the commencement of this Act, and, unless the contrary intention appears, any enactment passed thereafter: