Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1980

Group B S

Others concerned with the administration of justice S

(a)

Advocates and solicitors, whether or not in actual practice as such;

(b)

advocates’ clerks;

(c)

apprentices of, and legal trainees employed by, solicitors;

(d)

officers and staff of any court if their work is wholly or mainly concerned with the day-to-day administration of the court;

(e)

persons employed as shorthand writers in any court;

(f)

Clerks of the Peace and their deputies;

(g)

Inspectors of Constabulary appointed by Her Majesty;

(h)

assistant inspectors of constabulary appointed by the Secretary of State;

(i)

constables of any police force (including constables engaged on central service within the meaning of section 38 of the Police (Scotland) Act M1 1967);

(j)

constables of any constabulary maintained under statute;

(k)

persons employed in any capacity by virtue of which they have the powers and privileges of police constables;

(l)

special constables;

(m)

police cadets;

(n)

persons employed under section 9 of the said Act of 1967 for the assistance of the constables of a police force;

(o)

officers of, and members of visiting committees for, prisons, remand centres, detention centres, borstal institutions and young offenders institutions;

(p)

procurators fiscal within the meaning of section 462(1) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act M2 1975, and persons employed as clerks and assistants to such procurators fiscal;

(q)

messengers at arms and sheriff officers;

(r)

members of children’s panels;

(s)

reporters appointed under section 36 of the Social Work (Scotland) Act M3 1968 and their staffs;

(t)

directors of social work appointed under section 3 of the said Act of 1968 and persons employed to assist such directors in the performance of such of their functions as relate to probation schemes within the meaning of section 27 of that Act;

(u)

members of the Parole Board for Scotland;

(v)

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(w)

persons who, at any time within the 5 years immediately preceding the date at which the eligibility, in terms of section 1 of this Act, for jury service is being considered, have come within any description listed above in this Group.

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 1 Pt. I Group B para. (v) repealed (1.10.1993) by 1993 c. 9, s. 47(3), Sch. 7 Pt.I; S.I. 1993/2050, art. 3(4).

Marginal Citations

M1 1967 c. 77.

M2 1975 c. 71.

M3 1968 c. 49.