The Local Government Changes for England Regulations 1994

Sheriffs

21.—(1) In this regulation, “sheriff’s area” means a county or Greater London (excluding the City and the Temples), “the transferor sheriff” means the high sheriff for the sheriff’s area in which a transferred area is located prior to the reorganisation date and any reference to “the transferee sheriff” is a reference to the high sheriff for the sheriff’s area in which a transferred area is located on and after the reorganisation date.

(2) Any person who, immediately before the reorganisation date, is qualified to be appointed transferor sheriff by reason of holding land in the transferred area shall continue to be so qualified for a period of two years from the date of that change.

(3) The transferor sheriff shall, on or about the reorganisation date—

(a) perform (so far as they relate to persons or things in the transferred area) all the duties which are required by section 28(1) of the Sheriffs Act 1887(1) to be performed at the expiration of a sheriff’s term of office; and

(b) transfer to the custody of the transferee sheriff all documents of whatever description relating to the transferred area.

(4) In section 28(1) and (2) of the Sheriffs Act 1887, any reference to an “incoming sheriff” shall, from the reorganisation date, be construed as a reference to “the transferee sheriff”.

(1)

1887 c. 55.