Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014
2014 asp 18
The Act
Part 1 - Sheriff Courts
Chapter 3 — Organisation of business
Deployment of judiciary
Section 30 – Power to authorise a sheriff principal to act in another sheriffdom
56.Section 30 permits the Lord President to authorise the sheriff principal of one sheriffdom to exercise all or some of the functions of sheriff principal of another sheriffdom in any of the circumstances set out in subsection (1). Subsection (6) removes any doubt that a temporary sheriff principal may be asked to act in another sheriffdom while appointed.
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