26 Age limit for officers of High Court of Justiciary and Court of Session.S
A person appointed, in pursuance of the powers vested in the [F1Scottish Ministers] by this Part of this Act, to [F2the office of Auditor of the Court of Session] shall vacate his office on attaining the age of sixty-five years:
Provided that, where the [F1Scottish Ministers] after consultation with the Lord President [F3consider] it desirable in the public interest to retain any such person in office after he attains the age of sixty-five years, [F1they] may F4. . . authorise the continuance in office of such person, up to such later age, not exceeding seventy years, as [F1they] may think fit.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 26 substituted (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1820, arts. 1(2), 4, Sch. 2 Pt. 1 para. 15(5)(a)(d)
F2Words in s. 26 substituted (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1820, arts. 1(2), 4, Sch. 2 Pt. 1 para. 15(5)(b)
F3Word in s. 26 substituted (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1820, arts. 1(2), 4, Sch. 2 Pt. 1 para. 15(5)(c)
F4Words in s. 26 omitted (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1820, arts. 1(2), 4, Sch. 2 Pt. 1 para. 15(5)(e), Pt. IV