High sheriffs17

1

This regulation shall apply where an area is transferred from one relevant area to another such area, and in this regulation—

  • the transferred area” means the area so transferred; and

  • relevant area” means a county or Greater London other than the City and the Temples.

2

If any person is immediately before the appointed day qualified to be appointed high sheriff of a relevant area by reason of holding land in the transferred area, he shall continue to be so qualified for a period of two years from the appointed day.

3

On or about the appointed day the high sheriff of the relevant area from which the transferred area is transferred shall perform all the duties required by section 28(1) of the Sheriffs Act 1887 to be performed by a high sheriff at the expiration of his term of office so far as they relate to persons or things in the transferred area and accordingly—

a

that high sheriff shall transfer to the custody of the high sheriff of the relevant area to which the transferred area is transferred all documents relating to the transferred area; and

b

any reference in that subsection, so far as it applies by virtue of this paragraph, to an incoming sheriff shall be construed as a reference to the high sheriff secondly mentioned in (a).