Administration of Justice Act 1964

24 (1) A person who immediately before 1st April 1965 is qualified to be appointed sheriff of a county adjoining the county of London by reason of holding land in that adjoining county shall notwithstanding that that land becomes part of Greater London, continue until the 1st April 1967, to be qualified to be appointed sheriff of that adjoining county.

(2) The persons required to be nominated under section 6 of the Sheriffs Act 1887 to serve as sheriff of Greater London in the year 1965 shall be three persons nominated by the great officers mentioned in that section from the lists of persons nominated to serve as sheriff of the county of London or of the county of Middlesex for the year 1964.

(3) On or about 1st April 1965 the sheriff of the county of London, Middlesex, Essex, Kent, Surrey or Hertfordshire shall perform all the duties required by section 28(1) of the Sheriffs Act 1887 to be performed by a sheriff at the expiration of his term of office so far as they relate to persons or things in or for an area which as from that date forms part of Greater London or of a county of which it does not form part before that date ; and accordingly—

(a) that sheriff shall transfer to the custody of the sheriff of Greater London the prisoners in a prison which as from that date is within Greater London and all documents relating to an area which as from that date forms part of Greater London :

(b) the sheriff of Middlesex shall transfer to the custody of the sheriff of Surrey or the sheriff of Hertfordshire all documents which relate to an area which as from that date forms part of the county of Surrey or of the county of Hertfordshire, as the case may be ;

(c) any reference in that section, so far as it applies by virtue of this sub-paragraph, to an incoming sheriff shall be construed as a reference to any sheriff to whose custody prisoners or documents are transferred by virtue of this sub-paragraph.