This is the original version (as it was originally enacted).
(1)The office of sheriff (that is to say, the office known formerly as the office of sheriff depute, but known immediately before the commencement of this Act as the office of sheriff) shall be known as the office of sheriff principal, the office of sheriff substitute shall be known as the office of sheriff, and the office of honorary sheriff substitute shall be known as the office of honorary sheriff.
(2)Accordingly, any enactment or other document in force or having effect at the commencement of this Act which refers whether expressly or by implication, or which falls to be construed as referring, or as including a reference, to the office of sheriff (as defined in subsection (1) above), or to the office of sheriff substitute, or to the office of honorary sheriff substitute, or to the holder of any of the said offices, shall be construed in accordance with subsection (1) above.
(3)Section 28 of the [1889 c. 63.] Interpretation Act 1889 (which provides that the expression " sheriff " shall, as respects Scotland, include a sheriff substitute) shall have effect as if for the words " sheriff substitute " there were substituted the words " sheriff principal " ; and the said section 28 shall not apply for the interpretation of this Act.
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