http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2008/6/section/53/notesJudiciaryExplanatory Notes to Judiciary and Courts (Scotland) Act 2008Scottish GovernmentKing's Printer for Scotland2018-04-06
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2008/6" id="c00001" Class="ScottishAct" Year="2008" Number="0006">Judiciary and Courts (Scotland) Act 2008</Citation>
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29 October 2008
The Act<CitationSubRef id="c00194" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2008/6/part/3" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="part-3">Part 3</CitationSubRef> – the CourtsSheriff Courts
<CitationSubRef id="c00217" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2008/6/section/53" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="section-53">Section 53</CitationSubRef> – Sheriffs principal and sheriffs acting in other sheriffdoms
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This section replaces references to the Scottish Ministers in section 10 of the 1971 Act with references to the Lord President. It moves the power and responsibility for the movement of sheriffs principal and sheriffs across sheriffdoms from the Scottish Ministers to the Lord President. This is in line with the Lord President’s role of securing the efficient disposal of business in all of the Scottish courts, including the sheriff courts, in section 2(2)(a).