Introductory Text
PART I INTRODUCTORY
1.Citation, commencement and revocation
2.Interpretation
PART II QUALIFICATIONS, TRAINING AND EXAMINATIONS
3.Qualification as officer of court
4.Qualification as messenger-at-arms
5.Training
6.Examinations
PART III APPLICATIONS FOR COMMISSION
7.Applications for recommendation for commission as messenger-at-arms
8.Application for commission as sheriff officer
PART IV THE POLICY
9.Caution and professional indemnity insurance
10.Renewals of Policy
11.Transitional provisions
PART V ACCOUNTS
12.Officers of court to keep accounts
13.Accountant’s certificate
PART VI OFFICIAL FUNCTIONS AND EXTRA-OFFICIAL ACTIVITIES
14.Official functions
15.Extra-official activities
16.Applications for authorisation to collect debts not constituted by decree
PART VII REGISTERS OF OFFICERS OF COURT
17.Keeping of registers
18.Intimation of information by officers of court for registers
PART VIII REPORTS AND INVESTIGATIONS OF CONDUCT OF OFFICERS OF COURT
19.Reports and complaints
20.Opportunity to officer of court to reply to allegation of misconduct
PART IX DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS
21.Disciplinary proceedings against messengers-at-arms
22.Procedure in proceedings against messengers-at-arms
23.Disciplinary proceedings against sheriff officers
24.Procedure in proceedings against sheriff officers
25.Remits of disciplinary proceedings
26.Opportunity to officer of court to make representations where order considered under section 80(1) and (2) of the Act of 1987
27.Appeals
28.Suspension under particular rules
PART X MISCELLANEOUS
29.Mandate to recover debt in diligence
30.Dealings in goods poinded or sold by virtue of diligence
31.Official identity card
Signature
SCHEDULE 1
FORMS
SCHEDULE 2
TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS
1.Bonds of caution
2.Policies of professional indemnity insurance
Explanatory Note