# Sheriffs Act 1887, Section 23: Obligation to appoint under-sheriff and declaration of office by under-sheriff.

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(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.
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(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—
(a) before one of the judges of Her Majesty’s High Court; or
(b) in the county for which such under-sheriff is appointed before a justice of the peace.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/50-51/55/section/23 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/sheriffs-act-1887/section-23
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