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Article 13 Sheriffs

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(1)

In this article—

  • “transferee sheriff” means the high sheriff for the sheriff’s area in which a tranferred area is located on and after 1st April 1996;

  • “transferor sheriff” means the high sheriff for the sheriff’s area in which a transferred area is located immediately prior to 1st April 1996; and

  • “tranferred area” means any of the following areas—

    1. (a)

      the communities of Llangedwyn, Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant and Llansilin in the existing county of Clwyd;

    2. (b)

      the community of Pentyrch in the existing county of Mid Glamorgan; and

    3. (c)

      the communities of Ewenny, St. Bride’s Major and Wick, in the existing county of Mid Glamorgan.

(2)

Any person who, immediately before 1st April 1996, is qualified under section 4 of the Sheriffs Act 1887f1 to be appointed high sheriff for the existing counties of Clwyd or Mid Glamorgan by reason of holding land in a transferred area shall, for a period of two years from that date, be qualified to be appointed high sheriff for the preserved county of Clwyd or the preserved county of Mid Glamorgan, as the case may be.

(3)

A transferor sheriff shall on or after 1st April 1996—

(a)

perform (so far as they relate to persons or things in the transferred area) all the duties which are required by section 28(1) of the Act of 1887 to be performed at the expiration of a sheriff’s term of office; and

(b)

transfer to the custody of the transferee sheriff all documents of whatever description relating to the transferred area.

(4)

In section 28(1) and (2) of the Act of 1887 the references to an “incoming sheriff” shall from 1st April 1996 be construed as including a reference to a transferee sheriff.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

1987 c. 55.