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Sheriff Courts and Legal Officers (Scotland) Act 1927

Sheriff Courts and Legal Officers (Scotland) Act 1927 s 8

s 8 Secretary of State may issue instructions, &c.

(1) The Scottish Court Service may from time to time issue to sheriff clerks such instructions as may be deemed necessary for the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of this Act. (1A) The Lord Advocate may from time to time issue to procurators fiscal such instructions as may be deemed necessary for the purpose of— (a) giving effect to the provisions of this Act, or (b) the efficient disposal of business in the sheriff courts. (2) The Scottish Ministers may from time to time by order make such modifications and adaptations of the provisions of any enactment as may be necessary in consequence of the exercise of the power vested in the Scottish Court Service by subsection (1) of section one of this Act to appoint a sheriff clerk for an area other than a sheriffdom .

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