Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014

7 Temporary sheriff principal: further provision

(1) Subject to subsection (3), an individual’s appointment as a temporary sheriff principal lasts until recalled under subsection (2).

(2) The Scottish Ministers must, if requested to do so by the Lord President of the Court of Session, recall the appointment of a temporary sheriff principal.

(3) A sheriff’s appointment as a temporary sheriff principal ceases if the sheriff—

(a) ceases to hold office as sheriff, or

(b) is suspended from office as sheriff.

(4) Subject to section 6(4)(b), a temporary sheriff principal of a sheriffdom may exercise the jurisdiction and powers that attach to the office of sheriff principal of the sheriffdom, and does not need a commission for that purpose.

(5) The appointment of a sheriff as a temporary sheriff principal does not affect the sheriff’s appointment as sheriff.

(6) Where a sheriff of one sheriffdom (“sheriffdom A”) is appointed as temporary sheriff principal of another sheriffdom (“sheriffdom B”)—

(a) the sheriff must not, while remaining temporary sheriff principal of sheriffdom B, act in the capacity of sheriff of sheriffdom A, but

(b) in addition to the jurisdiction and powers that attach specifically to the office of sheriff principal, the sheriff, by virtue of the appointment as temporary sheriff principal of sheriffdom B, may also exercise in that sheriffdom the jurisdiction and powers that attach to the office of sheriff of that sheriffdom.