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11(1)In the application of the Sheriffs Act, 1887, to any sheriff or under sheriff for a county which includes two counties within the meaning of section ten of this Act, references to a justice of the peace for the county in the following provisions, that is to say—
(a)section seven and subsection (3) of section twenty-three (which relate to the making of a declaration of office before a justice); and
(b)section seventeen (which precludes the sheriff from acting as a justice);
shall be taken as references to a justice for either of the said two counties, and the reference in subsection (1) of section thirty (which provides for filing the declaration of office) to the clerk of the peace for the county shall be taken as a reference to the clerk of the peace having the custody of the records which include the declarations made before the coming into force of section ten of this Act.
(2)In the application of the said Act to any sheriff or under sheriff of any borough which is a borough losing its commission, but is a county of a city or a town, the said references shall be taken as references to a justice of the peace or the clerk of the peace, as the case may be, of the county within the meaning of section ten of this Act in which the borough is situated, and in the case of any such borough any jurisdiction conferred by the said Act on the recorder or court of quarter sessions of the borough may be exercised by the court of quarter sessions for the said county.
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