Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014
2014 asp 18
The Act
Part 1 - Sheriff Courts
Chapter 3 — Organisation of business
Sheriff principal’s general responsibilities
Section 28 – Sheriff principal’s power to fix sittings of sheriff courts
53.Section 28, which re-enacts and updates section 17 of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971, gives the sheriff principal power by order to prescribe where and when sheriff courts will sit and the descriptions of business to be disposed of at those sittings. The provisions of section 28 are again subject to the Lord President’s overall responsibility for the efficient disposal of business in the Scottish courts.
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