Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014
2014 asp 18
The Act
Part 1 - Sheriff Courts
Chapter 2 - Judiciary of the sheriffdoms
Fitness for office
Section 25 – Removal from office
50.Section 25 provides for a judicial office holder’s removal from office following the report of a tribunal constituted under section 21. Subsection (1) provides that the First Minister may remove an individual from the office of sheriff principal, sheriff, part-time sheriff, summary sheriff, or part-time summary sheriff if the tribunal has reported that the individual is unfit to hold that office and after that report has been laid before the Parliament. In the case of a sheriff principal, sheriff, or summary sheriff, such removal requires an order under the negative procedure (subsections (2) and (3)).
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