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Law Officers Act 1944

1944 CHAPTER 25 7 and 8 Geo 6

An Act to enable the functions of the Attorney General, of the Lord Advocate and of the Attorney General for Northern Ireland to be discharged respectively by the Solicitor General, by the Solicitor General for Scotland and by deputy in certain cases.

[13th July 1944]

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F1S. 1 repealed (30.9.1997) by 1997 c.60, s. 3(2)(3), Sch.

2 Lord Advocate and Solicitor General for Scotland.U.K.

(1)Any functions authorised or required, by any enactment or otherwise, to be discharged by the Lord Advocate may be discharged by the Solicitor General for Scotland, if—

(a)the office of Lord Advocate is vacant; or

(b)the Lord Advocate is unable to act owing to absence or illness; or

(c)the Lord Advocate authorises the said Solicitor General to act in any particular case.

(2)During any period when the office of Lord Advocate is vacant, any certificate, notice, information, intimation, proceedings or other matter or thing whatsoever authorised or required by any enactment to be given, made, directed or done to or against the Lord Advocate may be given, made, directed or done to or against the Solicitor General for Scotland.

(3)In this section the expression “enactment” includes any enactment passed before the commencement of this Act, and, unless the contrary intention appears, any enactment passed thereafter:

Provided that nothing in this section shall derogate from or prejudice the provisions of section[F2 three of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1887 [F3or section 42 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975].][F2287 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (c.46)]

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This Act may be cited as the Law Officers Act 1944.

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