{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-scotland-act-1971/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-scotland-act-1971/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1971/58",
  "legislation_title": "Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-scotland-act-1971",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Offices of sheriff principal and sheriff.",
  "text": ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": "repealed",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 4 repealed (E.W.N.I) (1.4.2015 for specified purposes, 22.9.2015 for specified purposes) by The Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/700), art. 1(11)(e), Sch. para. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Act (except for ss. 2(3), 3(4)) repealed (S.) (1.4.2015 except for the repeal of ss. 31, 35, 36(2)(3), 36A, 36B, 37, 38, 45, 22.9.2015 for the repeal of ss. 31, 37(1)(b)(2A)(2D)) by Courts Reform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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/58/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:49:43.356398+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."
}