{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriffs-act-1887/section-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriffs-act-1887/section-23.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/50-51/55",
  "legislation_title": "Sheriffs Act 1887",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriffs-act-1887",
  "path": "section/23",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Obligation to appoint under-sheriff and declaration of office by under-sheriff.",
  "text": "(1) Every sheriff shall within one month after the notification of his appointment in the London Gazette by writing under his hand appoint some fit person to be his under-sheriff, and shall transmit a duplicate of such written appointment to the clerk of the peace for the county which shall be filed by him among the records of his office.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Every under-sheriff shall before he enters on the execution of his office make a declaration in the form in the Second Schedule to this Act or to the like effect—\n(a) before one of the judges of Her Majesty’s High Court; or\n(b) in the county for which such under-sheriff is appointed before a justice of the peace.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 23(2) repealed (19.11.1998) by 1998 c. 43, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I Group 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 23(3)(a)(b) and preceding word substituted (1.4.2005) for words by Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), ss. 109(1), 110, Sch. 8 para. 60; S.I. 2005/910, art. 3(y)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 23 amended by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), s. 219(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "References to clerk of the peace for the county to be construed as references to proper officer of county council: Courts Act 1971 (c. 23), Sch. 8 para. 1 and Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 29 Pt. I para. 4(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 23(1)(3) modified by Administration of Justice Act 1964 (c. 42), s. 19(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/50-51/55/section/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:36:28.653584+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}