{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-and-legal-officers-scotland-act-1927/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-and-legal-officers-scotland-act-1927/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/17-18/35",
  "legislation_title": "Sheriff Courts and Legal Officers (Scotland) Act 1927",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-and-legal-officers-scotland-act-1927",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appointment of sheriff clerk and procurator fiscal deputes.",
  "text": "In each sheriffdom or district the Scottish Court Service and the Lord Advocate may respectively, . . ., appoint such sheriff clerk deputes or procurator fiscal deputes as may be necessary.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word substituted by virtue of Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971 (c. 58), Sch. 1 para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 2 substituted (1.4.2010) by Judiciary and Courts (Scotland) Act 2008 (asp 6), ss. 63(4), 76(1), Sch. 4 para. 2(3); S.S.I. 2010/39, art. 2(b), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 2 repealed (1.7.1999) by 1998 c. 46, s. 125(1)(2), Sch. 8 para. 3(3), Sch. 9 (with s. 126(3)-(11)); S.I. 1998/3178, art. 2(1)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/17-18/35/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:40:47.769472+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."
}