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Part I Constitution, Organisation and Administration

Scotland

  1. General duty of the Secretary of State
  2. Sheriffdoms
  3. Sheriff court districts and places where sheriff courts are to be held
  4. Sheriffs principal and sheriffs
  5. Functions of the Secretary of State in relation to sheriffs principal, sheriffs, et ceteralaetc.
  6. Consideration of fitness for, and removal from, shrieval office
  7. Functions of the sheriff principal in relation to sheriffs, et ceteralaetc.
  8. Miscellaneous

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1

Act (except for ss. 2(3), 3(4)) repealed (S.) (1.4.2015 except for the repeal of ss. 31, 35, 36(2)(3), 36A, 36B, 37, 38, 45, 22.9.2015 for the repeal of ss. 31, 37(1)(b)(2A)(2D), 28.11.2016 for the repeal of ss. 35(2)-(4), 36A, 36B, 37(2B)(2C) and the repeal of specified words in s. 38(b)) by Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 18), s. 138(2), sch. 5 para. 6(2); S.S.I. 2015/77, art. 2(2)(3), sch. (with art. 7); S.S.I. 2015/247, art. 2, sch. (with art. 9); S.S.I. 2016/291, art. 2, sch. (with art. 3(1)(2))