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The Scottish Administration (Offices) Order 1999

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1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Scottish Administration (Offices) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 6th May 1999.

(2) In this Order, “the Act” means the Scotland Act 1998.

Specification of offices

2.  As from the date when section 44(1)(c) of the Act comes into force(1), the following offices are specified for the purposes of section 126(8)(b) of the Act (offices in the Scottish Administration which are not ministerial offices), namely the offices of procurator fiscal and procurator fiscal depute to which appointments may be made under sections 1(2) and 2 respectively of the Sheriff Courts and Legal Officers (Scotland) Act 1927(2).

3.  As from the principal appointed day(3), the offices which are mentioned in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order and which are established by, or referred to in, the enactment mentioned in the corresponding entry in column 2 of that Schedule, are also specified for the purposes of section 126(8)(b) of the Act.

A.K. Galloway

Clerk of the Privy Council

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