{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriffs-act-1887/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriffs-act-1887/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/50-51/55",
  "legislation_title": "Sheriffs Act 1887",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriffs-act-1887",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Declaration of office.",
  "text": "(1) Every sheriff shall, before he enters on the execution of his office, make and subscribe 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 of which he is sheriff before a justice of the peace.\n(2) Every sheriff shall continue to be and act as sheriff until his successor has made the said declaration and entered upon office.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 7(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. 58; S.I. 2005/910, art. 3(y)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 7(1) 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/7",
    "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."
  }
}