All Petitions for Service which at the Commencement of this Act shall be depending before the Sheriff of Chancery or the Sheriff of any County acting under the said Act of the Tenth and Eleventh of Her Majesty Queen Victoria shall thereafter depend before the Sheriff of Chancery or the Sheriff of such County respectively acting under this Act, and shall be taken up by such Sheriff at the Stage at which the Proceedings in such Petitions shall have arrived at the Commencement of this Act, and shall be thereafter proceeded with by such Sheriff according to the Provisions of this Act as if the same had been in all Cases in which before or after the Commencement of this Act a Petition for Service shall have been or shall be advocated or appealed to the Court of Session, or a Process of Reduction shall have been or shall be brought of any Decree of Service pronounced before or after the Commencement of this Act, any Remit which in such Process of Advocation or Appeal or Reduction has been or shall be made by the said Court to the Sheriff may and shall be executed and carried out by the Sheriff to whom the Petitions or Petition advocated or appealed, or in which the Decree under Reduction may have been pronounced, was originally presented, or before whom the same would have depended if the same had not been presented till after the Commencement of this Act.