{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-and-legal-officers-scotland-act-1927/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-and-legal-officers-scotland-act-1927/section-5.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/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Whole-time clerks.",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Court Service and the Lord Advocate may respectively, . . ., appoint such whole-time clerks or other whole-time assistants to a sheriff clerk or procurator fiscal as may be deemed necessary ....\n(2) The Scottish Court Service may appoint to a justice of the peace court such clerks and assistant clerks as it considers necessary.\n(3) The clerks and assistants mentioned in subsections (1) and (2) above are referred to in this Act as whole-time clerks.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 5 renumbered as s. 5(1) (10.12.2007) by Criminal Proceedings etc. (Reform) (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 6), ss. 80, 84(1), Sch. para. 1(b); S.S.I. 2007/479, art. 3(1), Sch. (with arts. 4-14) (as amended by S.S.I. 2007/527, art. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 5(1) substituted (1.4.2010) by Judiciary and Courts (Scotland) Act 2008 (asp 6), ss. 63(4), 76(1), Sch. 4 para. 2(6)(a); S.S.I. 2010/39, art. 2(b), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 5 repealed (1.7.1999) by 1998 c. 46, s. 125(1)(2), Sch. 8 para. 3(5), Sch. 9 (with s. 126(3)-(11)); S.I. 1998/3178, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 5 repealed (10.12.2007) by Criminal Proceedings etc. (Reform) (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 6), ss. 80, 84(1), Sch. para. 1(a); S.S.I. 2007/479, art. 3(1), Sch. (with arts. 4-14) (as amended by S.S.I. 2007/527, art. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 5(2)(3) inserted (10.12.2007) by Criminal Proceedings etc. (Reform) (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 6), ss. 80, 84(1), Sch. 1 para. 1(c); S.S.I. 2007/479, art. 3(1), Sch. (with arts. 4-14) (as amended by S.S.I. 2007/527, art. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 5(2) substituted (1.4.2010) by Judiciary and Courts (Scotland) Act 2008 (asp 6), ss. 63(4), 76(1), Sch. 4 para. 2(6)(b)(i); S.S.I. 2010/39, art. 2(b), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 5(2) substituted (1.4.2010) by Judiciary and Courts (Scotland) Act 2008 (asp 6), ss. 63(4), 76(1), Sch. 4 para. 2(6)(b)(ii); S.S.I. 2010/39, art. 2(b), Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/17-18/35/section/5",
    "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."
}