Part 4JP courts and JPs
Appointment of JPs etc.
77Records and validity of appointment etc.
(1)
The Scottish Ministers are to maintain (in such form as they consider appropriate)—
(a)
a list of all persons holding office as a JP F1...,
(b)
a record of—
(i)
the instruments of appointment of those persons,
(ii)
any order removing a JP F2... from office.
(2)
The Scottish Ministers are to send to the clerk of each sheriff court a copy of the list and record mentioned in subsection (1) so far as relating to JPs F3... appointed for the sheriffdom containing that sheriff court.
(3)
Where a sheriff clerk is sent a copy of something under subsection (2), the clerk is to make it available (in such form as the clerk considers appropriate) for public inspection.
(4)
No appointment of a JP, nor any act of a JP, is invalidated solely because—
(a)
provision made under section 67(5) is not complied with,
(b)
the residential requirement referred to in section 68(1) is not met, or
(c)
a condition imposed under section 68(2) is not met.
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