{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriffs-act-1887/section-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriffs-act-1887/section-26.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/50-51/55",
  "legislation_title": "Sheriffs Act 1887",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriffs-act-1887",
  "path": "section/26",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Declaration by bailiffs, &c.",
  "text": "Every deputy bailiff and officer of a sheriff or under-sheriff, and every other person who has authority or takes upon himself . . ., or to intermeddle with the execution of writs issued by any court of record, shall before he does so make a declaration . . .in the form in the Second Schedule to this Act, or to the like effect—\nbefore any judge of the High Court; or\nin the county in which he exercises his authority before a justice of the peace.\n(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to any enforcement officer or any person acting under the authority of an enforcement officer.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Courts Act 1971 (c. 23), Sch. 11 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1981 (c. 19), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. V"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 26(1)(a)(b) and preceding word substituted (1.4.2005) for words by Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), ss. 109(1), 110, Sch. 8 para. 61(3); S.I. 2005/910, art. 3(y)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 26(2) inserted (15.3.2004) by Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), ss. 109(1), 110, Sch. 8 para. 61(4); S.I. 2004/401, art. 2(b)(iii) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 26 modified by Administration of Justice Act 1964 (c. 42), s. 19(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/50-51/55/section/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T18:19:05.728562+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."
  }
}