Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971 (c. 58)
50.—(1) The Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971 is amended as follows.
(2) In sections 2(3)(b) (power of Secretary of State to alter sheriffdoms) and 3(4) (sheriff court districts and places where sheriff courts are to be held), there is inserted at the end “but no payment shall be made under this provision to or in respect of any person who is mentioned in section 51(2) of the Scotland Act 1998”.
(3) In section 10 (Secretary of State may authorise sheriff principal or direct sheriff to act in another sheriffdom)(1)–
(a)in subsections (1), (1A) and (2), for “Secretary of State”, wherever those words appear there is substituted “Scottish Ministers”;
(b)in subsection (1), for “him” there is substituted “them”;
(c)in each of subsections (1) and (1A), for “decides” there is substituted “decide”; and
(d)in subsection (4)–
(i)for the words before “pay” there is substituted “The Scottish Ministers may”; and
(ii)after “State”, where that word appears for the second time, there is inserted “,with the consent of the Treasury,”.
Section 10 was amended by the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1980 (c. 55), section 10.