Administration of Justice Act 1964

19 Sheriff of Greater London

(1) For Greater London other than the City a sheriff, who shall be known as the sheriff of Greater London, shall be appointed in accordance with the enactments and customs applied by the following provisions of this section and for each London commission area an under-sheriff shall be so appointed.

(2) Subject to the following provisions of this section—

(a) for the purposes of the Sheriffs Act 1887 and the customs relating to the appointment of sheriffs Greater London other than the City shall be treated as a county;

(b) any enactment not contained in the said Act of 1887 or the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1957 shall apply to the sheriff of Greater London as if Greater London other than the City were a county and shall apply to the under-sheriff of any London commission area as if that area were a county;

(c) any reference in any enactment to the sheriff of the county of London or of Middlesex shall be construed as a reference to the sheriff of Greater London.

(3) Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (2) of this section shall have effect notwithstanding the definition of " county " in section 38 of the said Act of 1887, but shall not apply to any reference to a county adapted by subsection (4) of this section or to any reference to a court of quarter sessions for a county.

(4) The Sheriffs Act 1887 shall, in its application to Greater London, the sheriff of Greater London and the under-sheriff of any London commission area, have effect subject to the following additional modifications:—

(a) in sections 7(1), 17, 23(3) and 26 any reference to a justice of the peace for a county shall be construed as a reference to a justice of the peace for any of the London commission areas;

(b) the duty of the sheriff of Greater London to appoint an under-sheriff under section 23(1) shall be a duty to appoint an under-sheriff for each London commission area, and where the sheriff of Greater London appoints different persons to be under-sheriffs for different London commission areas—

(i) he shall by the relevant instrument of appointment nominate one of them to execute the office of sheriff in accordance with section 25 in the event of his death; and

(ii) section 25 shall have effect as if it empowered only the under-sheriff nominated for the purpose under this paragraph to execute the office of a deceased sheriff of Greater London, but as if it continued in office all the under-sheriffs nominated by the deceased sheriff;

(c) the documents required by sections 6(3), 23(1) and 30 to be sent to the clerk of the peace shall be sent to the clerk of the peace for each London commission area.